Where does “stuart” come from?
stuart (Friulian) comes from Latin extortus, from Latin extorqueo, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.
stuart (Friulian): crooked; wrong, false
Ancestry of “stuart”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | extortus | extorted |
| 2 | Latin | extorqueo | I extort; I tear away, twist away, wrench out |
| 3 | Latin | torqueō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | terkʷ- | to turn, spin |