Where does “toulmoun” come from?
toulmoun (Réunion Creole French) comes from French tout le monde, from French tout, from Middle French tout, from Old French tôt, from Vulgar Latin tōttus, from Latin tōtus, from Latin tot, from Proto-Indo-European toti — this; that.
toulmoun (Réunion Creole French): everyone
Definitions
- everyone
Ancestry of “toulmoun”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tout le monde | everyone, everybody |
| 2 | French | tout | whole, entirety, total; all; everything |
| 3 | Middle French | tout | all; all of; all; completely; totally; entirely |
| 4 | Old French | tôt | all |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tōttus | — |
| 6 | Latin | tōtus | whole, all, entire, total, complete, every part |
| 7 | Latin | tot | so many |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | toti | so many |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |