Where does “escorcher” come from?
escorcher (Middle French) comes from Old French escorchier, from Latin excorticāre, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.
escorcher (Middle French): to skin
Definitions
- to skin
Ancestry of “escorcher”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | escorchier | to debark; to skin |
| 2 | Latin | excorticāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | cortex | The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *(s)kort-ek-s | — |