Where does “fia” come from?
fia (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto fi-, 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 — to do, put, place.
fia (Esperanto): shameful, ignoble; naughty
Definitions
- shameful, ignoble; naughty
Ancestry of “fia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | fi- | shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty,... |
| 2 | Esperanto | fi | For shame! |
| 3 | French | fi | faugh, fie, bah, pooh |
| 4 | Latin | fi | pah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of... |
| 5 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |