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Where does “sortti” come from?

sortti (Finnish) comes from Swedish sort, from French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

sortti (Finnish): type, kind, sort; shortstop

Definitions

  1. type, kind, sort; shortstop

Ancestry of “sortti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsortsort, kind
2Frenchsortesort, kind, type; way, manner; first/third-person...
3Old Frenchsortesort; type
4Italiansortasort, type, kind; feminine singular past...
5Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
6Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
7Latinlegō—
8Latinlēx—
9Proto-Italiclēg-—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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