Where does “privéleven” come from?
privéleven (Dutch) comes from Dutch privé, from French privé, from Old French privé, from Latin prīvātus, from Latin prīvō, from French ferriprive, from Latin ferrum, from Cornish -er — Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
privéleven (Dutch): private life
Definitions
- private life
Ancestry of “privéleven”, step by step
privéleven traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch privé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | privé | private |
| 2 | French | privé | private; past participle of priver |
| 3 | Old French | privé | private |
| 4 | Latin | prīvātus | bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something |
| 5 | Latin | prīvō | to bereave, deprive, rob or strip of something |
| 6 | French | ferriprive | Suffering from a deficiency of iron |
| 7 | Latin | ferrum | iron; any tool made of iron; fight, clash |
| 8 | Cornish | -er | Forms masculine agent nouns |
| 9 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 10 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 11 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 12 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
via Dutch leven
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | leven | to live; life |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | lēven | to live, to be alive |
| 3 | Old Dutch | libben | to live |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | libbjan | to live, to be alive |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | libjaną | to live, to be alive |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leyp- | to stick; fat or sticky substance |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | lēy- | to leave, let; to want, desire; to let; leave... |