Where does “toestemming” come from?
toestemming (Afrikaans) comes from Dutch toestemming, from Dutch toestemmen, from Dutch stemmen, from Dutch -en, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -en, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
toestemming (Afrikaans): permission
Ancestry of “toestemming”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | toestemming | permission, authorization |
| 2 | Dutch | toestemmen | To consent, agree; To award; To allow |
| 3 | Dutch | stemmen | to vote; to tune; to bring into a certain mood |
| 4 | Dutch | -en | Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | -en | The ending of the infinitive form of verbs, used... |
| 6 | Old Dutch | -en | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |