Where does “appartementsgebouw” come from?
appartementsgebouw (Dutch) comes from Dutch appartement, from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento, from Spanish apartar, from Spanish -ar, from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
appartementsgebouw (Dutch): apartment building
Definitions
- apartment building
Ancestry of “appartementsgebouw”, step by step
appartementsgebouw traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch appartement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | appartement | an apartment |
| 2 | French | appartement | apartment, flat |
| 3 | Italian | appartamento | apartment, flat |
| 4 | Spanish | apartamiento | separation, seclusion; flat, apartment |
| 5 | Spanish | apartar | to separate, to divide; to set aside; to avert |
| 6 | Spanish | -ar | In adjectives, indicating membership or status;... |
| 7 | Old Spanish | -ar | indicates membership or status |
| 8 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |