Where does “plover” come from?

plover (Old French) comes from Old French plovier, from Latin pluviārius, from Latin pluvia, from Latin pluvius, from Latin pluit, from Proto-Italic plowō, from Proto-Indo-European pléweti.

plover (Old French): Alternative form of plovoir

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of plovoir

Ancestry of “plover”, step by step

plover traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French plovier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchplovierplover
2Latinpluviārius—
3Latinpluviarain; a shower; feminine nominative singular of...
4Latinpluviusrainy, bringing rain; The inner court of a...
5LatinpluitIt rains; it is raining
6Proto-Italicplowō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpléweti—

via Vulgar Latin plovere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinploverepresent active infinitive of *plovō
2Latinpluorains; I fall or drip like rain

Words derived from “plover”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pléweti →Every word from Proto-Italic plowō →Every word from Latin pluit →