Where does “sortiment” come from?
sortiment (Czech) comes from German Sortiment, from Italian sortimento, from Italian sortire, from French sortir, from Old French sortir, from Latin sortire, from Latin sors, from Latin legere — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
sortiment (Czech): a product range
Ancestry of “sortiment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | Sortiment | range |
| 2 | Italian | sortimento | — |
| 3 | Italian | sortire | to produce |
| 4 | French | sortir | to exit, go out, come out; to take out, bring... |
| 5 | Old French | sortir | allot, sort; to go out |
| 6 | Latin | sortire | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 7 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 8 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | legō | — |
| 10 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |