Where does “halvarine” come from?
halvarine (Dutch) comes from Dutch margarine, from French margarine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.
halvarine (Dutch): A form of margarine, with half the amount of fat...
Definitions
- A form of margarine, with half the amount of fat...
Ancestry of “halvarine”, step by step
halvarine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch margarine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | margarine | margarine |
| 2 | French | margarine | margarine |
| 3 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 4 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 5 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 6 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 7 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via Dutch half
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | half | half; half before the next whole; the middle of... |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | half | — |
| 3 | Old Dutch | half | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *halb | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | halbaz | half |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kelH- | to cut; to split, to separate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel- | to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,... |