Where does “bolletje” come from?
bolletje (Dutch) comes from Dutch slikken, from Dutch -er, from Old Dutch -āri, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
bolletje (Dutch): a small ingestible package for trafficking recreational drugs see the lemma form for derived terms
Definitions
- a small ingestible package for trafficking recreational drugs see the lemma form for derived terms
Ancestry of “bolletje”, step by step
bolletje traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch slikken
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | slikken | to swallow |
| 2 | Dutch | -er | Forms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a... |
| 3 | Old Dutch | -āri | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |
via Spanish bolita
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | bolita | marble small spherical ball used as a toy |
| 2 | Spanish | -ita | Substituted for "a" at the end of feminine words... |
| 3 | Spanish | -ito | Forms diminutives of nouns; Forms names of... |
| 4 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |