Where does “fi” come from?

fi (Esperanto) comes from French fi, from Latin fi, from Latin facio, from Proto-Italic fakjō, from Proto-Italic *θakjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- — to do, put, place.

fi (Esperanto): For shame!

Definitions

  1. For shame!

Ancestry of “fi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfifaugh, fie, bah, pooh
2Latinfipah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of...
3LatinfacioI do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,...
4Proto-Italicfakjōto make
5Proto-Italic*θakjō—
6Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁k-yé-ti—
7Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place

Words derived from “fi”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- →