Where does “olieramp” come from?
olieramp (Dutch) comes from Dutch ramp, from English ramp, from French rampe, from French ramper, from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper, from Frankish rampōn, from Frankish rampa — to cut, cut off, sever.
olieramp (Dutch): oil spill; oil-related disaster
Definitions
- oil spill; oil-related disaster
Ancestry of “olieramp”, step by step
olieramp traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch ramp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | ramp | disaster, catastrophe; an accident; a ramp |
| 2 | English | ramp | An inclined surface that connects two levels; an... |
| 3 | French | rampe | ramp |
| 4 | French | ramper | to crawl, worm (along); to creep |
| 5 | Middle French | ramper | to crawl |
| 6 | Old French | ramper | to climb; to ascend; to go up |
| 7 | Frankish | rampōn | — |
| 8 | Frankish | rampa | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hrempaną | to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle; to curve,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb- | to turn; to touch; to turn, bend, shrink, rotate,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |