The story
- Middle French · derived fromcontoir
- Middle Dutch · derived fromcontoor
- Dutch · borrowed fromkantoor
- English todaycantore
Borrowed from Dutch kantoor and its obsolete spelling cantoor, from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix). Doublet of computer, counter, and kontor.
Words from the same roots
Middle Dutchcontoor all →
kontor
Middle Frenchcontoir all →
kontor
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.