Where does “or” come from?
or (Middle French) comes from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
or (Middle French): gold
Ancestry of “or”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | or | gold; blond color; Alternative form of ore |
| 2 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 3 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 4 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 5 | Latin | audeō | — |
| 6 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 7 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |