Where does “femeller” come from?
femeller (Catalan) comes from Catalan femella, from Latin femella, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
femeller (Catalan): womanizing, skirt-chasing
Definitions
- womanizing, skirt-chasing
Ancestry of “femeller”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | femella | female |
| 2 | Latin | femella | girl, young woman; vocative singular of femella;... |
| 3 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |