Where does “La Grange” come from?
La Grange (French) comes from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à — accusative masculine plural of -us.
Ancestry of “La Grange”, step by step
La Grange traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French là
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 2 | Italian | là | there |
| 3 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 4 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 5 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 6 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 7 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 8 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 9 | English | avie | emulously |
| 10 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 11 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 12 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 13 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 14 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
via French grange
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | grange | a barn |
| 2 | Middle French | grange | granary (grain store) |
| 3 | Old French | grange | granary; barn; grange; small farm |
| 4 | Latin | granicārium | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | granica | grain storage barn, granary; grange, small farm |
| 6 | Latin | grānum | grain, seed, small kernel |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | grānom | grain |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nóm | grain |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nós | matured, grown old |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵerh₂- | to grow old, to mature |