English
tourniquet
Tourniquet comes from French tourniquet ‘revolving door or turnstile’, from tourner ‘to turn’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-.
- 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 CEtornōas tornāre‘turn’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400torner‘to turn’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tourner‘to turn (to rotate)’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttourner‘to turn’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttourniquet‘revolving door or turnstile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907tourniquet
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 CEtornōas tornāre‘turn’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400torner‘to turn’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tourner‘to turn (to rotate)’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttourner‘to turn’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttourniquet‘revolving door or turnstile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907tourniquet
Earliest quotation: 1907, Robert William Chambers, New York: “His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’
throw, thread, tragic, threshold, trout, detrimental, tyrone, attrition, thrash, detriment, overturn, triage, trite, termite, tribulation, detritus, truant, thresher, tyro, thresh, upturn, derma, 38 more
through Latin tornō ‘turn’
return, tournament, turner, 8 more
through Old French torner ‘to turn’
through French tourner ‘to turn’
Today it means
noun A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- / tourniquet