Where does “cultuurstelsel” come from?
cultuurstelsel (Dutch) comes from Dutch cultuur, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
cultuurstelsel (Dutch): a policy of allocating (nominally) 20% of agricultural land in the Dutch East Indies to export crops, imposed by the Dutch government as a type of lease, operating from 1830 until the 1870s for most products and until the early twentieth century for coffee; the system was widely abused leading to mu
Definitions
- a policy of allocating (nominally) 20% of agricultural land in the Dutch East Indies to export crops, imposed by the Dutch government as a type of lease, operating from 1830 until the 1870s for most products and until the early twentieth century for coffee; the system was widely abused leading to mu
Ancestry of “cultuurstelsel”, step by step
cultuurstelsel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch cultuur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | cultuur | culture |
| 2 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |