Where does “printem” come from?

printem (Louisiana Creole) comes from French printemps, from Old French printans, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

printem (Louisiana Creole): spring

Definitions

  1. spring

Ancestry of “printem”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchprintempsspring
2Old Frenchprintansspring
3Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
5Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European temp- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tempos →Every word from Latin tempus →