Where does “motocikl” come from?
motocikl (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian mòtōr, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
motocikl (Serbo-Croatian): motorcycle
Ancestry of “motocikl”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | mòtōr | — |
| 2 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |