Where does “parafossette” come from?
parafossette (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
Ancestry of “parafossette”, step by step
parafossette traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English fossette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fossette | A little hollow; a dimple; A small, deep-centred... |
| 2 | French | fossé | ditch; trench; moat |
| 3 | Middle French | fossé | trench; ditch |
| 4 | Old French | fossé | fosse |
| 5 | Late Latin | fossatum | entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch; a ditch,... |
| 6 | Latin | fossō | to dig, pierce |
| 7 | Latin | fodiō | to dig, dig up, dig out; to bury; to dig or clear out the earth from a place; to mine, quarry |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰod- | to pierce, dig |