Where does “baiser” come from?

baiser (Middle French) comes from Old French baisier, from Latin bāsiō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

baiser (Middle French): to kiss; a kiss

Definitions

  1. to kiss; a kiss

Ancestry of “baiser”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbaisierto kiss; a kiss
2Latinbāsiōto kiss
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “baiser”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →