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tourney
Tourney comes from Old French tornei ‘tournament’, from tornoiier ‘to joust, tilt’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub, turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tórh₁nosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tórnosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόρνοςtórnos‘a lathe’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornus‘lathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornō‘to round off, make round’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tornidiōreconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tornoiieras tornoier‘to joust, tilt’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400tornei‘tournament’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400turnei
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1620tourney
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub, turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tórh₁nosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tórnosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόρνοςtórnos‘a lathe’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornus‘lathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtornō‘to round off, make round’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tornidiōreconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tornoiieras tornoier‘to joust, tilt’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400tornei‘tournament’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400turnei
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1620tourney
Earliest quotation: c. 1620, anonymous, Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song: “By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’
throw, thread, tragic, threshold, detrimental, trout, detriment, attrition, thrash, tyrone, triage, overturn, trite, termite, tribulation, detritus, truant, thresher, tyro, thresh, derma, upturn, 39 more
through Latin tornus ‘lathe’
through Latin tornō ‘to round off, make round’
Today it means
noun A tournament.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- / tourney