Where does “ĉevaleto” come from?
ĉevaleto (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto ĉevalo, from French cheval, from French bois, from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Frankish busk, from Proto-Germanic buskaz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰuH- — to become, grow, appear.
ĉevaleto (Esperanto): pony
Definitions
- pony
Ancestry of “ĉevaleto”, step by step
ĉevaleto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto ĉevalo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | ĉevalo | horse; knight |
| 2 | French | cheval | horse; horsepower; tall and slim woman, beautiful... |
| 3 | French | bois | wood; wood, woodland; antler |
| 4 | Middle French | boys | wood |
| 5 | Old French | bois | woodland; woods |
| 6 | Frankish | busk | bush; bush, thicket |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | buskaz | bush; thicket |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |
via Latin equuleus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | equuleus | colt, foal; rack |
| 2 | Latin | -uleus | suffix forming masculine diminutives |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |