Where does “perkuti” come from?
perkuti (Esperanto) comes from French percuter, from Latin percutiō, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
perkuti (Esperanto): to percuss
Definitions
- to percuss
Ancestry of “perkuti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | percuter | to hit; to crash into |
| 2 | Latin | percutiō | to strike, beat |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |