Where does “piedo” come from?
piedo (Esperanto) comes from Italian piede, from Old French perdre, from Latin perdo, from Latin -dō, from Proto-Germanic -dô, from Sicilian di, from Latin dē, from Latin post — afterwards, post; by, at.
piedo (Esperanto): foot
Definitions
- foot
Ancestry of “piedo”, step by step
piedo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian piede
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | piede | foot |
| 2 | Old French | perdre | to lose |
| 3 | Latin | perdo | I destroy, ruin, wreck; I waste, squander; I lose... |
| 4 | Latin | -dō | to put |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -dô | — |
| 6 | Sicilian | di | Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s |
| 7 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 8 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 9 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
via French pied
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pied | foot; leg, foot; An old unit of measure equal to... |
| 2 | Middle French | pied | foot |
| 3 | Old French | pié | foot |
| 4 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |