Where does “canétois” come from?
canétois (French) comes from French Canet, from Catalan canet, from Catalan ça, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
Ancestry of “canétois”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Canet | town in Pyrénées-Orientales |
| 2 | Catalan | canet | a five-cent coin |
| 3 | Catalan | ça | here; in this place |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |