Where does “cjan” come from?
cjan (Friulian) comes from Italian ciano, from Italian cianogeno, from Italian -geno, from Italian tossicità, from Italian -ità, from Latin -īta, from Ancient Greek -ίτης, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
cjan (Friulian): dog
Definitions
- dog
Ancestry of “cjan”, step by step
cjan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian ciano
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | ciano | cornflower; cyan; cyanogen |
| 2 | Italian | cianogeno | cyanogen; nitrile; cyanogenetic |
| 3 | Italian | -geno | -genic, -genous; -gen |
| 4 | Italian | tossicità | toxicity |
| 5 | Italian | -ità | Used to form abstract nouns that correspond to... |
| 6 | Latin | -īta | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ίτης | Suffix forming a masculine noun: one connected... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via Latin Canis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Canis | a dog, a hound animal |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | δρόμος | race, running; racetrack; course, path |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 4 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |