Where does “Krio” come from?
Krio derives from English creole, which comes from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo, from Latin creare meaning to create or produce.
Krio (English): A creole language based on English/Jamaican Creole spoken by around 500,000 people mainly in Sierra Leone
Definitions
- A creole language based on English/Jamaican Creole spoken by around 500,000 people mainly in Sierra Leone
Ancestry of “Krio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Krio | Krio | Creole |
| 2 | English | Creole | A descendant of white European settlers who is... |
| 3 | French | créole | Creole; creole language |
| 4 | Spanish | criollo | creole; unmixed European-descended Latin... |
| 5 | Portuguese | crioulo | criollo; a slave born at the house of his master;... |
| 6 | Portuguese | cria | young; offspring; kid; young'un; someone who is... |
| 7 | Portuguese | criar | to create, to put into existence; to invent; to... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | criar | to raise |
| 9 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |