Where does “Asperger” come from?
Asperger (French) comes from Latin aspergo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
Asperger (French): Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome
Definitions
- Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome
Ancestry of “Asperger”, step by step
Asperger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin aspergo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | aspergo | I scatter or strew something or someone; I... |
| 2 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 4 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via German Asperger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Asperger | resident of Asperg; Ellipsis of Asperger-Syndrom,... |
| 2 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 3 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |