Where does “fi-” come from?
fi- (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto fi, 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): shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty,...
Definitions
- shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty,...
Ancestry of “fi-”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | fi | For shame! |
| 2 | French | fi | faugh, fie, bah, pooh |
| 3 | Latin | fi | pah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of... |
| 4 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |