Where does “ontdekker” come from?

ontdekker (Dutch) comes from Dutch -er, from Old Dutch -āri, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

ontdekker (Dutch): discoverer

Definitions

  1. discoverer

Ancestry of “ontdekker”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutch-erForms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a...
2Old Dutch-āri
3Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “ontdekker

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios
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