Where does “optie” come from?
optie (Dutch) comes from French option, from Latin optiō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
optie (Dutch): option
Ancestry of “optie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | option | option |
| 2 | Latin | optiō | — |
| 3 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 7 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |