Where does “suspektinda” come from?
suspektinda (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto suspekti, from English suspect, from Middle French suspect, from Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, from Latin suspiciō, from Latin suspicere, from Latin specere — to see, to look, to observe.
suspektinda (Esperanto): suspect, dodgy
Definitions
- suspect, dodgy
Ancestry of “suspektinda”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | suspekti | to suspect |
| 2 | English | suspect | To imagine or suppose to be true, or to exist,... |
| 3 | Middle French | suspect | — |
| 4 | Old French | suspect | — |
| 5 | Latin | suspectus | mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;... |
| 6 | Latin | suspiciō | to look up at or to |
| 7 | Latin | suspicere | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 8 | Latin | specere | present active infinitive of speciō;... |
| 9 | Latin | specio | I observe, watch, look at |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |