Where does “fortreni” come from?
fortreni (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto treni, from French traîner, from Vulgar Latin traginare, from Latin tragēre, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ- — to run.
fortreni (Esperanto): to drag away; to drag off
Definitions
- to drag away; to drag off
Ancestry of “fortreni”, step by step
fortreni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto treni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | treni | to drag, to tow |
| 2 | French | traîner | to pull, drag; to lag behind, dawdle; to lie... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | traginare | present active infinitive of *traginō |
| 4 | Latin | tragēre | — |
| 5 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |
via Esperanto for
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | for | away, far, gone |
| 2 | English | Forth | that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea |
| 3 | English | Fourth | The Fourth of July |
| 4 | Middle English | fourthe | Alternative form of ferthe |
| 5 | Middle English | ferthe | fourth; One of four equal parts of a whole; a... |
| 6 | Old English | fēorþa | fourth |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | feurþō | fourth |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fedurþô | fourth |