Etymology

atelier

atel·ier
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Today it means: A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house. Full definition →

French atelier ← Middle French astelier ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromassula
  2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₂eḱs-“axis; axle”
  3. Middle French · derived fromastelier
  4. French · borrowed fromatelier
  5. English todayatelier

Unadapted borrowing from French atelier, from Middle French astelier, from astelle (“small piece of wood, etc., to hold a broken bone in place, splint”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis; axle”) via Latin assula) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode). Compare typologically Latin harēna, whence arena.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱs- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.