Where does “revanş” come from?
revanş (Azerbaijani) comes from Russian реванш, from French revanche, from French revancher, from Old French revenchier, from Old French vengier, from Latin vindicō, from Latin vindex, from Latin dīcō — shoe.
revanş (Azerbaijani): revenge
Definitions
- revenge
Ancestry of “revanş”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | реванш | revenge, retaliation; rematch |
| 2 | French | revanche | revenge; vengeance; rematch |
| 3 | French | revancher | to take revenge |
| 4 | Old French | revenchier | — |
| 5 | Old French | vengier | to avenge, to take revenge |
| 6 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 7 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |