Where does “gondolet” come from?
gondolet (English) comes from Italian gondoletta, from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour, from French contourner, from Vulgar Latin contornare — resin.
gondolet (English): A small gondola
Ancestry of “gondolet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | gondoletta | Diminutive of gondola: a small gondola |
| 2 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 3 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 4 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 5 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 6 | French | contour | contour |
| 7 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |