Where does “decolonial” come from?
decolonial (English) comes from Spanish colonial, from Spanish colonia, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
decolonial (English): Of or relating to decoloniality
Definitions
- Of or relating to decoloniality
Ancestry of “decolonial”, step by step
decolonial traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish colonial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | colonial | colonial |
| 2 | Spanish | colonia | colony; neighbourhood; eau de Cologne |
| 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 English colonial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | colonial | Of or pertaining to a colony; Of or pertaining to... |
| 2 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 3 | Middle English | -al | — |
| 4 | Old French | -al | suffix used to form adjectives from nouns |
| 5 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |