Where does “ate” come from?

ate (Fijian) comes from Fijian yate, from English Yard, from English milliard, from French milliard, from French million, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione.

ate (Fijian): Obsolete spelling of yate

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of yate

Ancestry of “ate”, step by step

ate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Fijian yate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Fijianyateliver
2EnglishYardScotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
3Englishmilliard10, a thousand million
4FrenchmilliardA milliard
5Frenchmillionmillion, 10
6Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
7Old Frenchmillon
8Italianmilionemillion
9Italianmillethousand
10LatinMīllethousand; 1000
11Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
12Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

via Proto-Oceanic qate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Oceanicqateliver organ of the body
2Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianqatay
3Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianqatay
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqatayliver
5Proto-AustronesianqaCayliver

Words derived from “ate

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂Every word from Proto-Italic smīɣeslīEvery word from Latin Mīlle
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