Where does “descolonització” come from?
descolonització (Catalan) comes from Catalan descolonitzar, from Catalan colonitzar, from Catalan colònia, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
descolonització (Catalan): decolonization
Definitions
- decolonization
Ancestry of “descolonització”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | descolonitzar | to decolonize |
| 2 | Catalan | colonitzar | to colonize |
| 3 | Catalan | colònia | colony; cologne |
| 4 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 5 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 6 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 7 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |