Word Origin Summary

-eur is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. -eurFrenchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• migraineur

  English · derived from

• architector

  English · derived from

• -eur

  French · inherited from

• -ör

  Swedish · borrowed from

• -ør

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ør

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• -eur

  Dutch · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root