Where does “strafkolonie” come from?
strafkolonie (Dutch) comes from German Kolonie, from Middle French colonie, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
strafkolonie (Dutch): penal colony
Definitions
- penal colony
Ancestry of “strafkolonie”, step by step
strafkolonie traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kolonie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kolonie | colony settlement away from the mainland/motherland |
| 2 | Middle French | colonie | colony |
| 3 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 4 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 6 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via Dutch straf
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | straf | punishment, penalty, sanction; heavy, hefty;... |
| 2 | Dutch | straffe | |
| 3 | Dutch | straffen | to punish; to sentence; plural of straf |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | straffen | to scold, to reprimand; to refute; to punish |
| 5 | Middle High German | strāfen | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | strēpōną | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ter(h₁)- | to be stiff; be rigid; exert |