Where does “set” come from?

set (Mauritian Creole) comes from French sept, from Middle French sept, from Old French set, from Latin Septem, from Proto-Italic septem, from Proto-Indo-European septḿ̥ — seven.

set (Mauritian Creole): seven

Definitions

  1. seven

Ancestry of “set”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchseptseven
2Middle Frenchseptseven
3Old Frenchsetseven; third-person singular present indicative...
4LatinSeptemseven; 7
5Proto-Italicseptemseven
6Proto-Indo-Europeanseptḿ̥seven
Every word from Proto-Indo-European septḿ̥ →Every word from Proto-Italic septem →Every word from Latin Septem →