Where does “Restaurant” come from?
Restaurant (German) comes from French restaurant, from Latin restaurans, from Latin restauro, from Latin re-, from Proto-Indo-European wret-, from Proto-Indo-European wert-, from Proto-Indo-European wer- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.
Restaurant (German): restaurant
Ancestry of “Restaurant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | restaurant | restaurant; present participle of restaurer |
| 2 | Latin | restaurans | restoring |
| 3 | Latin | restauro | I restore, rebuild, reestablish, renew |
| 4 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |