Where does “orientativity” come from?
orientativity (English) comes from Italian orientative, from English orientate, from English Orient, from French orienter, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
orientativity (English): The quality of being orientative
Definitions
- The quality of being orientative
Ancestry of “orientativity”, step by step
orientativity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian orientative
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | orientative | feminine plural of orientativo |
| 2 | English | orientate | To face a given direction; To determine one's... |
| 3 | English | Orient | A pear cultivar from the United States |
| 4 | French | orienter | to orientate; to set to north; to guide |
| 5 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |