Where does “affiniteit” come from?
affiniteit (Dutch) comes from Middle French affinité, from Latin affīnitās, from Latin affinis, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
affiniteit (Dutch): affinity
Definitions
- affinity
Ancestry of “affiniteit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | affinité | — |
| 2 | Latin | affīnitās | relationship or alliance by marriage; kinship |
| 3 | Latin | affinis | neighbouring, allied to, kindred |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |