Etymology

soigneur

soign·eur
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Today it means: A non-riding member of a racing team whose role is to provide support (such as massages, supplies, and transportation) for the cyclists. Full definition →

French soigneur ← Proto-Germanic *sunjō ← Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₁sónts
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*sunjō
  3. French · borrowed fromsoigneur“non-riding member of a cycling team; physiotherapist; trainer”
  4. English todaysoigneur

Borrowed from French soigneur (“non-riding member of a cycling team; physiotherapist; trainer”), from soigner (“to look after, take care of; to nurse, treat”) + -eur (suffix forming masculine agent nouns from verbs). Soigner is derived from soin (“care”, noun) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sunjō, *sunþijō (“care, responsibility; sooth, truth”), from *sunjaz (“real, true”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts, the active participle of *h₁ésti (“to be”), from *h₁es- (“to be”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of soigné.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*sunjō all →

sin

Proto-Indo-European*h₁sónts all →

sooth

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.