Where does “graîssi” come from?
graîssi (Norman) comes from Norman graîsse, from Vulgar Latin crassia, from Latin crassus, from Old Latin cartsus, from Proto-Italic kartsus, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥t-sú-s, from Proto-Indo-European kert-, from Proto-Turkic *keŕ-.
graîssi (Norman): to fertilize
Ancestry of “graîssi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norman | graîsse | fat; dung; vraic |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | crassia | — |
| 3 | Latin | crassus | dense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump;... |
| 4 | Old Latin | cartsus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | kartsus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥t-sú-s | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 8 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | — |