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Where does “Sorte” come from?

Sorte (German) comes from Middle Low German sorte, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Sorte (German): a sort, variety, grade of a good produced for...

Definitions

  1. a sort, variety, grade of a good produced for...

Ancestry of “Sorte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germansorte—
2Old Frenchsortesort; type
3Italiansortasort, type, kind; feminine singular past...
4Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
5Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
6Latinlegō—
7Latinlēx—
8Proto-Italiclēg-—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Words derived from “Sorte”

  • sortenrein
  • Fleischsorte
  • sort
  • sòrt
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