Where does “bolletjestrui” come from?
bolletjestrui (Dutch) comes from Dutch bolletje, 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).
bolletjestrui (Dutch): an official shirt worn and accorded daily to the leader in the mountains classification in the Tour de France; a polka dot jersey
Definitions
- an official shirt worn and accorded daily to the leader in the mountains classification in the Tour de France; a polka dot jersey
Ancestry of “bolletjestrui”, step by step
bolletjestrui traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch bolletje
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | bolletje | a small ingestible package for trafficking recreational drugs see the lemma form for derived terms |
| 2 | Dutch | slikken | to swallow |
| 3 | Dutch | -er | Forms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a... |
| 4 | Old Dutch | -āri | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |