Where does “navé” come from?

navé (Antillean Creole) comes from French navet, from Old French -et, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

navé (Antillean Creole): turnip

Definitions

  1. turnip

Ancestry of “navé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnavetturnip; a very bad movie
2Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
3Latin-ātused
4Proto-Italic-ātos—
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →Every word from Latin -ātus →Every word from Old French -et →