Where does “grootcommandeur” come from?
grootcommandeur (Dutch) comes from Dutch commandeur, from French commandeur, from Old French comandeor, from Old French comander, from Latin commandō, from Latin commendō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
grootcommandeur (Dutch): knight grand commander, a high rank in certain...
Definitions
- knight grand commander, a high rank in certain...
Ancestry of “grootcommandeur”, step by step
grootcommandeur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch commandeur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | commandeur | commander |
| 2 | French | commandeur | commander |
| 3 | Old French | comandeor | commander |
| 4 | Old French | comander | to command, to implore; to request, to ask for;... |
| 5 | Latin | commandō | to chew |
| 6 | Latin | commendō | to commend, entrust to, commit |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |