Where does “Fajitagate” come from?
Fajitagate (English) comes from English gate, from Middle English gate, from Old English ġeat, from Old French gaut, from Proto-West Germanic walþu, from Proto-Germanic walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European wel- — to see.
Fajitagate (English): A legal and political controversy in San Francisco that began in 2002 when a demand by off-duty police officers for a citizen's fajitas led to a street fight
Definitions
- A legal and political controversy in San Francisco that began in 2002 when a demand by off-duty police officers for a citizen's fajitas led to a street fight
Ancestry of “Fajitagate”, step by step
Fajitagate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English gate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | gate | A doorlike structure outside a house; Doorway,... |
| 2 | Middle English | gate | An entryway or entrance to a settlement or... |
| 3 | Old English | ġeat | gate; a gate, door |
| 4 | Old French | gaut | forest, woods, woodland |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | walþu | forest |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | walþuz | forest |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wel- | to see |
via English fajita
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fajita | A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat... |
| 2 | Spanish | fajita | fajita |
| 3 | Spanish | -ita | Substituted for "a" at the end of feminine words... |
| 4 | Spanish | -ito | Forms diminutives of nouns; Forms names of... |
| 5 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |