Where does “sorrycultuur” come from?
sorrycultuur (Dutch) comes from Dutch cultuur, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
sorrycultuur (Dutch): a culture of apologising for errors without these...
Definitions
- a culture of apologising for errors without these...
Ancestry of “sorrycultuur”, step by step
sorrycultuur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch cultuur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | cultuur | culture |
| 2 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via Dutch sorry
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | sorry | sorry; sorry, pardon, excuse me |
| 2 | English | sorry | Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened,... |
| 3 | Middle English | sory | sad, sorrowful; pitiful, downtrodden, dismal;... |
| 4 | Old English | sāriġ | feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved,... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sairagaz | sad; saddened; grieved; sorry |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sairą | wound; sore |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | sairaz | sore, painful |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | seh₂yro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | seh₂y- | to bind; to be fierce, afflict; to tie, bind |