Where does “onfatsoenlijk” come from?
onfatsoenlijk (Dutch) comes from Dutch fatsoenlijk, from Dutch fatsoen, from Middle Dutch fatchoen, from Old French façon, from Latin factiō, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
onfatsoenlijk (Dutch): indecent, improper; obscene, vulgar
Definitions
- indecent, improper; obscene, vulgar
Ancestry of “onfatsoenlijk”, step by step
onfatsoenlijk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch fatsoenlijk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | fatsoenlijk | decent |
| 2 | Dutch | fatsoen | decency, propriety; model, design, shape |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | fatchoen | — |
| 4 | Old French | façon | way; manner; fashion |
| 5 | Latin | factiō | a political faction, a group of people acting together |
| 6 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Dutch on
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | on | rarely used as shorthand for oneven (odd), the prefix on- means not (corresponds to English un-) |