Where does “đốc-tờ” come from?

đốc-tờ (Vietnamese) comes from French docteur, from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

đốc-tờ (Vietnamese): physician

Definitions

physician

Ancestry of “đốc-tờ”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	docteur	a doctor
2	Latin	doctor	teacher, instructor; catechist
3	Latin	-tor	-er
4	Proto-Italic	-tōr	Forms agent nouns to verb stems
5	Proto-Indo-European	-tōr	Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6	Proto-Indo-European	-tor-s	—

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin doctor →