Where does “feetiran” come from?
feetiran (Dutch) comes from Dutch fee, from French fée, from Old French fae, from Latin fāta, from Latin fātum, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr — to speak, to be talking.
feetiran (Dutch): any tyrant flycatcher of the genus Empidonax
Definitions
- any tyrant flycatcher of the genus Empidonax
Ancestry of “feetiran”, step by step
feetiran traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch fee
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | fee | fairy |
| 2 | French | fée | fairy, fay |
| 3 | Old French | fae | — |
| 4 | Latin | fāta | Fate; Moira; goddess who controls destiny; divine personification of fate |
| 5 | Latin | fātum | destiny, fate, lot |
| 6 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 7 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |