Where does “avali” come from?
avali (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto avalo, from French aval, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo — in.
avali (Esperanto): to endorse, support
Definitions
- to endorse, support
Ancestry of “avali”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | avalo | aval financial guarantee |
| 2 | French | aval | downstream area, lower reaches; approval,... |
| 3 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 4 | English | avie | emulously |
| 5 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 6 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 7 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 8 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |