Where does “resaim” come from?
resaim (Tok Pisin) comes from Tok Pisin resa, from English razor, from Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin raso, from Latin rāsus, from Latin rādō — to scrape, scratch, gnaw.
resaim (Tok Pisin): to shave
Definitions
- to shave
Ancestry of “resaim”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tok Pisin | resa | razor |
| 2 | English | razor | A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in... |
| 3 | Middle English | rasour | razor |
| 4 | Old French | rasour | — |
| 5 | Old French | raser | to shave |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | raso | dative masculine singular of rāsus; dative neuter... |
| 7 | Latin | rāsus | scraped, shaved |
| 8 | Latin | rādō | to scrape, shave, scratch |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | razdō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | rh₁d-dʰ- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | reh₁d- | to scrape, scratch, gnaw |