Where does “inefficiëntie” come from?
inefficiëntie (Dutch) comes from Dutch efficiënt, from French efficient, from Latin efficiens, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
inefficiëntie (Dutch): inefficiency
Definitions
- inefficiency
Ancestry of “inefficiëntie”, step by step
inefficiëntie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch efficiënt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | efficiënt | efficient |
| 2 | French | efficient | efficient; effective |
| 3 | Latin | efficiens | producing, and related senses of the action;... |
| 4 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 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 |