English

Torres Strait Creole

Torres Strait Creole comes from English Creole ‘language formed from two parent languages’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Ancient Greek τύρσις ‘tower’

Latin turris ‘tower, especially a military tower for siege,…’

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- ‘to twist’

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Latin stringō ‘compress, tighten’

Latin strictus ‘tightened, compressed, having been tightened’

Old French estreit

Middle English streit

Portuguese crioulo

Spanish criollo

French créole

Every English word from English Creole

name A creole spoken in the Torres Strait Islands.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.