Where does “personeelsuitje” come from?
personeelsuitje (Dutch) comes from Afrikaans personeel, from French personnel, from Old French personel, from Latin persōnālis, from Latin persōna, from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον, from Ancient Greek ὤψ — to see; eye.
personeelsuitje (Dutch): staff outing
Definitions
- staff outing
Ancestry of “personeelsuitje”, step by step
personeelsuitje traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Afrikaans personeel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | personeel | staff |
| 2 | French | personnel | personal; staff, members of staff, personnel |
| 3 | Old French | personel | personal |
| 4 | Latin | persōnālis | personal; of or belonging to a person |
| 5 | Latin | persōna | mask |
| 6 | Etruscan | 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 | a mask; a masked individual, often performing in... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πρόσωπον | face, visage, countenance; front; mask |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὤψ | to the eye; in the face; eye |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | ókʷs | eye |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ókʷs | eye |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |
via Dutch uitje
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | uitje | excursion, day trip |
| 2 | Dutch | ui | onion; Nickname for someone from Rijnsburg |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | uyen | — |
| 4 | Old French | oignon | onion |
| 5 | Latin | ūniō | a unity, union |
| 6 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |