Where does “Dokter” come from?

Dokter (Luxembourgish) comes from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Dokter (Luxembourgish): doctor

Definitions

  1. doctor

Ancestry of “Dokter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindoctorteacher, instructor; catechist
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “Dokter”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin doctor →