Where does “adoptiekind” come from?
adoptiekind (Dutch) comes from Dutch adoptie, from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, from Latin adoptō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
adoptiekind (Dutch): adoptive child
Definitions
- adoptive child
Ancestry of “adoptiekind”, step by step
adoptiekind traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch adoptie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | adoptie | adoption |
| 2 | French | adoption | adoption |
| 3 | Latin | adoptio | adoption |
| 4 | Latin | adoptō | to take by choice, choose, select |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |