Where does “roketatar” come from?

roketatar (Turkish) comes from Turkish roket, from Ottoman Turkish روكت, from French roquette, from Italian rocchetta, from Italian rocchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

roketatar (Turkish): rocket launcher

Definitions

  1. rocket launcher

Ancestry of “roketatar”, step by step

roketatar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish roket

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishroketrocket
2Ottoman Turkishروكت
3Frenchroquetterocket weapon
4Italianrocchettaincendiary rocket
5Italianrocchettospool; reel; coil
6Italian-ettoAlterative suffix used to form melioratives,...
7English-etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed
8Middle English-etForms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,...
9Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
10Latin-ātused
11Proto-Italic-ātos
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via Turkish atmak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishatmakto throw, cast, fire; to throw away, discard;...
2Ottoman Turkishآتمقto cast, throw, eject, shoot, fire
3Proto-Turkicāt-step; to step; to walk
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tosEvery word from Latin -ātusEvery word from Italian -etto