Where does “አሳንሰር” come from?
አሳንሰር (Amharic) comes from Arabic أَصَنْصِير, from French ascenseur, from Latin ascensor, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
አሳንሰር (Amharic): lift UK, elevator US
Definitions
- lift UK, elevator US
Ancestry of “አሳንሰር”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | أَصَنْصِير | — |
| 2 | French | ascenseur | lift, elevator; scroll bar |
| 3 | Latin | ascensor | A person who ascends; rider, charioteer |
| 4 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |