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Where does “Zoot” come from?

Zoot (Central Franconian) comes from French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Zoot (Central Franconian): kind; sort; a certain kind of people, of...

Definitions

  1. kind; sort; a certain kind of people, of...

Ancestry of “Zoot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsortesort, kind, type; way, manner; first/third-person...
2Old Frenchsortesort; type
3Italiansortasort, type, kind; feminine singular past...
4Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
5Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
6Latinlegō—
7Latinlēx—
8Proto-Italiclēg-—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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