Where does “retus” come from?
retus (Proto-Celtic) comes from French retouche, from French retoucher, from French toucher, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
Ancestry of “retus”, step by step
retus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French retouche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | retouche | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 2 | French | retoucher | to retouch; to touch up, to put the finishing... |
| 3 | French | toucher | The act of touching; A way of touching; The sense... |
| 4 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 5 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Latin retusus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | retusus | blunt, dull; retuse |
| 2 | Latin | retundo | I beat back, drive back; I restrain, check; I... |
| 3 | Latin | tundo | I beat, strike, buffet; I pound, bruise, crush,... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tundō | beat, strike |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewd- | to push, to hit |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | stew- | to praise, laud |