English
vivers
Vivers comes from French vivres ‘food supplies, provisions’, from vivre ‘to live’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃weti‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gʷīwō‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvivō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vivre
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600vivre‘to live’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentvivre‘to live’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentvivres‘food supplies, provisions’plural of vivre
- Englishearliest quotation 1814vivers
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃weti‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gʷīwō‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvivō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vivre
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600vivre‘to live’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentvivre‘to live’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentvivres‘food supplies, provisions’plural of vivre
- Englishearliest quotation 1814vivers
Earliest quotation: 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley; or: “I'll join you at three, if the vivers can…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ‘to live’
biology, kidney, vitamin, hygiene, viable, zodiac, vitality, revive, quicken, quickness, anaerobic, quicksilver, biogenesis, wyvern, 57 more
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós ‘alive, living’
through Latin vivō
Today it means
noun provisions; victuals
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti / vivers