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Where does “Bankett” come from?

Bankett (German) comes from French banquet, from Italian banchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos.

Bankett (German): banquet; part of the organisation responsible for...

Definitions

  1. banquet; part of the organisation responsible for...

Ancestry of “Bankett”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbanquetbanquet
2Italianbanchettofeast, banquet; first-person singular present...
3Italian-ettoAlterative suffix used to form melioratives,...
4English-etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed
5Middle English-etForms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,...
6Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
7Latin-ātus—
8Proto-Italic-ātos—
9Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →