Where does “aspergi” come from?
aspergi (Esperanto) comes from Italian aspergere, from Latin aspergo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
aspergi (Esperanto): to asperse, spray, sprinkle, spritz
Definitions
- to asperse, spray, sprinkle, spritz
Ancestry of “aspergi”, step by step
aspergi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian aspergere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | aspergere | to dampen, sprinkle, humidify |
| 2 | Latin | aspergo | I scatter or strew something or someone; I... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via French Asperger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Asperger | Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome |
| 2 | German | Asperger | resident of Asperg; Ellipsis of Asperger-Syndrom,... |
| 3 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 4 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 7 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |
via English asperge
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | asperge | To sprinkle; An aspergillum |
| 2 | English | aspergillum | An implement, in the form of a brush, or of a rod... |
| 3 | Ecclesiastical Latin | aspergillum | — |