Tartar

Morpheme

Tartar

Type

free base

Denotation

various tribes and their descendants of Tartary on the Eurasian Steppe including Turks, Mongols, and Manchus

Etymology

Old French Tartaire; Medieval Latin Tartarus (spelling influenced by Latin Tartarus); Old Turkic tatar, t¹t¹r¹

Evidence

Tartar, Tartarean, Tartareans, Tartarin, Tartars, Tartary

Notes

<r> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable

See Also

Tartar

Homographs

Tart(a)r [Tartar, Tartr], Tartar