Where does “option” come from?

option (French) comes from Latin optiō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

option (French): option

Definitions

  1. option

Ancestry of “option”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinoptiōchoosing, choice, preference, option
2Latin-iō
3Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
6Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “option

Every word from Chichewa iye
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