Where does “sizo” come from?
sizo (Haitian Creole) comes from French ciseaux, from French ciseau, from Old French cisel, from Vulgar Latin cisellum, from Latin caesellum, from Latin caesus, from Latin caedō, from Proto-Italic kaidō.
sizo (Haitian Creole): scissors
Ancestry of “sizo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | ciseaux | plural of ciseau; scissors |
| 2 | French | ciseau | chisel; sculpture; scissors |
| 3 | Old French | cisel | pair of scissors |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | cisellum | — |
| 5 | Latin | caesellum | — |
| 6 | Latin | caesus | cut, hewn, felled; struck, beaten; killed |
| 7 | Latin | caedō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kaidō | to cut, to hew, to fell |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂id- | — |