Where does “appontage” come from?
appontage (French) comes from French apponter, from French ponter, from French pont, from Old French pont, from Latin pōns, from Latin fractus, from Latin frangere, from Latin frangō — to shine, shimmer.
appontage (French): landing
Ancestry of “appontage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | apponter | to land |
| 2 | French | ponter | to build a bridge |
| 3 | French | pont | bridge; deck |
| 4 | Old French | pont | bridge |
| 5 | Latin | pōns | — |
| 6 | Latin | fractus | broken, shattered, having been broken;... |
| 7 | Latin | frangere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | frangō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰrēǵ- | to shine, shimmer |