promener
French
verb
Definitions
- (reflexive) to walk (leisurely), to go for a walk, to stroll
- (transitive) to walk out (an animal)
- (transitive) to carry around, often with the implication of show showing off
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pourmener inherited from Old French pourmener derived from Latin *prominare, prō (for, on behalf of, forward, as, towards, forth, in front of, like, as befitting) + Latin mino (I drive).
Origin
Latin
mino
Gloss
I drive
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pro domino English
- promenade English
- *por Latin
- *prominare Latin
- mino Latin
- procudo Latin
- prodeo Latin
- profilius Latin
- promitto Latin
- proneptis Latin
- proponere, propono Latin
- prosemino Latin
- prout Latin
- prō Latin
- prōcūrāre Latin
- prōlongāre Latin
- Promenade German
- pro German
- pro Italian
- promenade Dutch, Flemish
- promenade French
- promeneuse French
- promenoir French
- pro Spanish, Castilian
- *per- Proto-Indo-European
- *pro- Proto-Indo-European
- pró Portuguese
- promenad Swedish
- pro Middle English
- pormener Old French
- pourmener Old French
- purposer Old French
- promenado Esperanto
- promenbastono Esperanto
- promenejo Esperanto
- promeni Esperanto
- promenigi Esperanto
- promeno Esperanto
- promenar Ido
- Promenad Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- pourmener Middle French
- per Old Portuguese
- promenin Louisiana Creole French