Where does “transfixer” come from?

transfixer (Middle French) comes from Latin transfigo, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.

Ancestry of “transfixer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatintransfigoI thrust through; I transfix
2Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
3Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten

Words derived from “transfixer”

Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō →