Where does “ラブラドール” come from?
ラブラドール (Japanese) comes from English labrador, from Portuguese lavrador, from Old Portuguese lavrador, from Latin labōrātor, from French laboratoire, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator — fox.
Ancestry of “ラブラドール”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | labrador | A Labrador retriever |
| 2 | Portuguese | lavrador | farmer; husbandman; ploughman |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | lavrador | — |
| 4 | Latin | labōrātor | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 5 | French | laboratoire | laboratory |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 7 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 8 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 9 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 10 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 11 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 12 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 13 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 14 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 15 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 16 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |