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Where does “transborder” come from?

Transborder derives from English trans- combined with border, which comes from Frankish bord meaning board or plank, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰer- meaning to carry or bear.

transborder (English): Beyond the border, on the other side of the...

Definitions

  1. Beyond the border, on the other side of the...

Ancestry of “transborder”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
2EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
3EnglishgenderClass; kind; A division of nouns and pronouns ...
4Middle Englishgender—
5Middle Frenchgendre—
6Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
7Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth
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