Where does “aster” come from?

aster (Mauritian Creole) comes from French acheteur, from French acheter, from Old French acheter, from Vulgar Latin accaptare, from Latin acceptō, from Latin accipiō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

aster (Mauritian Creole): now; at this moment; buyer

Definitions

now; at this moment; buyer

Ancestry of “aster”, step by step

aster traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French acheteur

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	acheteur	buyer, purchaser
2	French	acheter	to purchase; buy
3	Old French	acheter	to purchase; buy
4	Vulgar Latin	accaptare	—
5	Latin	acceptō	to take, receive, accept (regularly)
6	Latin	accipiō	to receive, accept, take
7	Latin	ad-	to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
9	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
10	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11	Proto-Italic	en	in
12	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

via French à cette heure

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	à cette heure	now, immediately, at once

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →