Where does “cultuurtaal” come from?
cultuurtaal (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.
cultuurtaal (Dutch): standard language, language of culture
Definitions
- standard language, language of culture
Ancestry of “cultuurtaal”, step by step
cultuurtaal 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 |
via Dutch taal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | taal | language |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | tāle | spoken or written words, that which someone says |
| 3 | Old Dutch | tala | number }} |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *talu | narration, report |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | talō | narration, report; assessment, judgment;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |