Where does “overleveren” come from?
overleveren (Dutch) comes from Dutch leveren, from Middle Dutch leveren, from Old French livrer, from Latin līberō, from Latin līberāre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober — shoe.
overleveren (Dutch): to hand down
Definitions
- to hand down
Ancestry of “overleveren”, step by step
overleveren traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch leveren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | leveren | to supply; to deliver |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | leveren | — |
| 3 | Old French | livrer | to deliver; to give birth; to deliver |
| 4 | Latin | līberō | to free, set free, liberate |
| 5 | Latin | līberāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 7 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 8 | French | lober | to lob |
| 9 | French | lob | lob |
| 10 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 11 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 12 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 13 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 14 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 15 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 16 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 17 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 18 | Latin | calceus | shoe |