Where does “sort” come from?
sort (Danish) 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...
sort (Danish): black; under the table; done in secret so as to...
Definitions
- black; under the table; done in secret so as to...
Ancestry of “sort”, step by step
sort traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French sorte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sorte | sort, kind, type; way, manner; first/third-person... |
| 2 | Old French | sorte | sort; type |
| 3 | Italian | sorta | sort, type, kind; feminine singular past... |
| 4 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 5 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | legō | to collect, gather, bring together, catch |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |