Where does “adret” come from?
adret (English) comes from French adret, from Occitan adret, from Old Occitan adreit, from Old Occitan a, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle.
adret (English): The sun-facing side of a mountain
Definitions
- The sun-facing side of a mountain
Ancestry of “adret”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | adret | sun-facing side of a mountain |
| 2 | Occitan | adret | — |
| 3 | Old Occitan | adreit | — |
| 4 | Old Occitan | a | to, towards |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |