Etymology

witzchoura

witz·cho·u·ra
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Today it means: A woman's fur-lined cloak, mantle, or pelisse with large sleeves, worn during the early 19th century. Full definition →

French witzchoura ← Polish wilczura ← Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wĺ̥kʷos“wolf”
  2. Polish · derived fromwilczura“(archaic) wolfskin”
  3. French · borrowed fromwitzchoura
  4. English todaywitzchoura

PIE word *wĺ̥kʷos Borrowed from French witzchoura (obsolete), vitchoura (“witzchoura”), from Polish wilczura (“(archaic) wolfskin”), from wilczy (“wolf-like, lupine”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”)) + -ura (suffix forming feminine nouns).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*wĺ̥kʷos all →

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