Where does “resto-basket” come from?
resto-basket (French) comes from French basket, from English basketball, from English Ball, from Middle English bal, from Old English beall, from English beal, from Old English hyll, from Albanian hulli — to rise, to be tall; hill.
resto-basket (French): the act of doing a runner without paying after...
Definitions
- the act of doing a runner without paying after...
Ancestry of “resto-basket”, step by step
resto-basket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French basket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | basket | basketball; sneaker, trainer |
| 2 | English | basketball | A sport in which two opposing teams of five... |
| 3 | English | Ball | surname |
| 4 | Middle English | bal | A ball; A rounded or spherical lump or bump,... |
| 5 | Old English | beall | ball |
| 6 | English | beal | A small inflammatory tumor; pustule; To gather... |
| 7 | Old English | hyll | hill |
| 8 | Albanian | hulli | furrow |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hulliz | hill |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kl̥Hnís | hill |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kelH- | to rise, to be tall; hill |
via French restaurant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | restaurant | restaurant; present participle of restaurer |
| 2 | Latin | restaurans | restoring |
| 3 | Latin | restauro | I restore, rebuild, reestablish, renew |
| 4 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |