Where does “restoran” come from?

restoran (Malay) comes from English restaurant, 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.

restoran (Malay): restaurant

Definitions

  1. restaurant

Ancestry of “restoran”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrestaurantAn eating establishment in which diners are...
2Frenchrestaurantrestaurant; present participle of restaurer
3Latinrestauransrestoring
4LatinrestauroI restore, rebuild, reestablish, renew
5Latinre-back, backwards; again; prefix added to various...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwret-
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwert-to turn, to rotate
8Proto-Indo-Europeanwer-to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wer-