Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *-tōrProto-Italicinherited from
2. -eorFrenchderived from
3. -ourMiddle Englishinherited from
4. *-tōrProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
5. *-ōsProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
6. -orLatinderived from
7. *-ōsProto-Italicinherited from
8. -ātorLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• pelakor

  Indonesian · derived from

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