Where does “ravaler” come from?
ravaler (French) comes from French avaler, from French aval, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo — in.
ravaler (French): to restore; to swallow again; to debase
Definitions
- to restore; to swallow again; to debase
Ancestry of “ravaler”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | avaler | to swallow; to believe; to support |
| 2 | French | aval | downstream area, lower reaches; approval,... |
| 3 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 4 | English | avie | emulously |
| 5 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 6 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 7 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 8 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |