Where does “marchant” come from?

marchant (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.

marchant (Middle French): merchant

Definitions

  1. merchant

Ancestry of “marchant”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mercatus →