Where does “marchand” come from?

marchand (Middle French) comes from Old French marcheant, from Latin mercatans, from Latin mercatare, from Latin mercatus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

marchand (Middle French): vendor; seller

Definitions

  1. vendor; seller

Ancestry of “marchand”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmarcheantseller; vendor
2Latinmercatans—
3Latinmercatare—
4Latinmercatustrade, traffic, buying and selling; market,...
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “marchand”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mercatus →