Where does “Azorit” come from?
Azorit (Finnish) comes from English Azores, from Portuguese Açores, from Portuguese açor, from Old Portuguese açor, from Vulgar Latin acceptor, from Latin accipiter, from Latin accipio, from Latin ad- — in.
Ancestry of “Azorit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Azores | officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores |
| 2 | Portuguese | Açores | Azores |
| 3 | Portuguese | açor | goshawk |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | açor | goshawk |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | acceptor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | accipiter | hawk, merlin; a rapacious man |
| 7 | Latin | accipio | to receive, accept, take |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |