Where does “rassenscheiding” come from?
rassenscheiding (Dutch) comes from Dutch ras, from French race, from Middle French rasse, from Italian razza, from Italian razzo, from Italian raggio, from Latin radius, from English -án.
rassenscheiding (Dutch): racial segregation
Definitions
- racial segregation
Ancestry of “rassenscheiding”, step by step
rassenscheiding traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch ras
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | ras | race, breed; quick |
| 2 | French | race | race; kind; breed |
| 3 | Middle French | rasse | — |
| 4 | Italian | razza | race, breed; kind, type; family, descent |
| 5 | Italian | razzo | skyrocket; Ellipsis of razzo di segnalazione;... |
| 6 | Italian | raggio | ray, beam, shaft; spoke; radius |
| 7 | Latin | radius | ray; staff, rod; spoke |
| 8 | English | -án | Of or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a |
| 9 | Middle English | -an | — |
via Dutch scheiding
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | scheiding | separation; A divorce; A parting, a part |
| 2 | Dutch | scheiden | to separate; to divorce |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | scheiden | to separate; to dissolve, to break up; to divide |
| 4 | Old Dutch | skeithan | to leave, to separate from |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | skaiþan | to separate |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skaiþaną | to separate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skeyt- | to cut, part, separate; to cut, part, divide,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | skey- | to split, to dissect |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |