Where does “verbe à particule” come from?
verbe à particule (French) comes from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
verbe à particule (French): phrasal verb (compound word made up of a conjugating verb and a particle (invariable part other than a noun or a pronoun), such as get up in English and ankommen in German)
Definitions
- phrasal verb (compound word made up of a conjugating verb and a particle (invariable part other than a noun or a pronoun), such as get up in English and ankommen in German)
Ancestry of “verbe à particule”, step by step
verbe à particule traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French à
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 2 | English | avie | emulously |
| 3 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 4 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 5 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 6 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via French verbe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | verbe | speech; tone of voice; way of speaking |
| 2 | Latin | verbum | word; proverb, saying; verb |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |