Where does “verbe impersonnel” come from?
verbe impersonnel (French) comes from French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from Latin persōnālis, from Latin persōna, from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον, from Ancient Greek ὤψ, from Proto-Hellenic ókʷs — to see; eye.
verbe impersonnel (French): impersonal verb (verb that only conjugates itself in the third-person singular)
Definitions
- impersonal verb (verb that only conjugates itself in the third-person singular)
Ancestry of “verbe impersonnel”, step by step
verbe impersonnel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French impersonnel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | impersonnel | impersonal; impersonal, banal, nondescript |
| 2 | Latin | impersōnālis | impersonal |
| 3 | Latin | persōnālis | personal; of or belonging to a person |
| 4 | Latin | persōna | mask |
| 5 | Etruscan | 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 | a mask; a masked individual, often performing in... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πρόσωπον | face, visage, countenance; front; mask |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὤψ | to the eye; in the face; eye |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | ókʷs | eye |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ókʷs | eye |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |
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... |