Where does “kronjuvelo” come from?
kronjuvelo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto krono, from English Crown, from Middle English coroune, from Old French coroner, from Latin corōnō, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
kronjuvelo (Esperanto): crown jewel
Definitions
- crown jewel
Ancestry of “kronjuvelo”, step by step
kronjuvelo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto krono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | krono | crown |
| 2 | English | Crown | The sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms |
| 3 | Middle English | coroune | An important, symbolic, or significant piece of... |
| 4 | Old French | coroner | to crown |
| 5 | Latin | corōnō | to crown, wreathe, coronate (with a garland, wreath, or crown) |
| 6 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 7 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 8 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 9 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 10 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 11 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Esperanto juvelo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | juvelo | jewel; gem |
| 2 | German | Juwel | gem, jewel; jewel, piece of jewellery; anything... |
| 3 | English | Jewel | from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century |
| 4 | Middle English | juel | Something of great monetary worth or value,... |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | juel | — |
| 6 | Old French | jouel | jewel; treasure; an object or person of beauty |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | jocale | graceful object |
| 8 | Latin | iocus | a joke, jest; a form of amusement; pastime, sport |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | jokos | word, saying |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yokos | word, utterance |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yek- | to utter |