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Where does “kwaliteit” come from?

kwaliteit (Dutch) comes from French qualité, from Latin qualitas, from Ancient Greek ποιότης, from Ancient Greek -τής, from Ancient Greek πεῖρα, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.

kwaliteit (Dutch): quality

Definitions

  1. quality

Ancestry of “kwaliteit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchqualitéquality
2Latinqualitasquality, property
3Ancient Greekποιότηςquality
4Ancient Greek-τήςAppended to verbs to form agent nouns
5Ancient Greekπεῖραtrial, experiment, attempt
6Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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