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Where does “sanitær” come from?

sanitær (Danish) comes from French sanitaire, from Latin sānitās, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

sanitær (Danish): sanitary

Definitions

  1. sanitary

Ancestry of “sanitær”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsanitairesanitary; health
2Latinsānitās—
3Latin-tās—
4Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
5Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
6Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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