Where does “swerte” come from?
swerte (Cebuano) comes from Spanish suerte, from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
swerte (Cebuano): luck
Ancestry of “swerte”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | suerte | luck, fortune; lot, fate; sort, kind, type |
| 2 | Old Spanish | suerte | — |
| 3 | Latin | sortem | accusative singular of sors |
| 4 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 5 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | legō | — |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |