Where does “pabil” come from?

pabil (Old Occitan) comes from Vulgar Latin *papīlum, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.

pabil (Old Occitan): candlewick

Definitions

  1. candlewick

Ancestry of “pabil”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latin*papīlum
2Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
3French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
4Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
5Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
6Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
7Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
8Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
9Proto-Indo-European-éh₂
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a