Where does “Venetian” come from?
Venetian derives from English Venetia, from Italian -ana, from Spanish -ana, from Latin -anus, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os.
Venetian (English): Of, from, or relating to Venice, Italian city; An...
Definitions
- Of, from, or relating to Venice, Italian city; An...
Ancestry of “Venetian”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | veneziano | Venetian |
| 2 | Italian | -ano | Used with a stem to form the third-person plural... |
| 3 | Latin | -ant | third-person plural present active indicative of... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 8 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
Words derived from “Venetian”