Where does “Volkenbond” come from?
Volkenbond (Dutch) comes from Dutch bond, from Middle Dutch bund, from Proto-Germanic bandaz, from French bandage, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la — that.
Volkenbond (Dutch): League of Nations
Definitions
- League of Nations
Ancestry of “Volkenbond”, step by step
Volkenbond traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch bond
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | bond | society, fellowship; union, association, guild;... |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | bund | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | bandaz | — |
| 4 | French | bandage | bandage |
| 5 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 6 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 7 | Italian | là | there |
| 8 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 9 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 10 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 11 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 12 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 13 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 14 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 15 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 16 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 17 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Dutch volk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | volk | people, nation; tribe; folk, the common people,... |
| 2 | Dutch | tuin | garden, yard; enclosure, fence or hedge |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | tuun | — |
| 4 | Old Dutch | tūn | fence |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 7 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |