Where does “komandan laplas” come from?
komandan laplas (Haitian Creole) comes from Haitian Creole komandan, from French commandant, from French commander, from Middle French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commandō, from Latin commendō, from Latin cōn- — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
komandan laplas (Haitian Creole): A military officer in charge of a town
Definitions
- A military officer in charge of a town
Ancestry of “komandan laplas”, step by step
komandan laplas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Haitian Creole komandan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haitian Creole | komandan | commander |
| 2 | French | commandant | commander; major |
| 3 | French | commander | to order |
| 4 | Middle French | commander | to command |
| 5 | Old French | comander | to command, to implore; to request, to ask for;... |
| 6 | Latin | commandō | to chew |
| 7 | Latin | commendō | to commend, entrust to, commit |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Haitian Creole laplas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haitian Creole | laplas | square, plaza |
| 2 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 3 | Italian | là | there |
| 4 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 5 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 6 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 7 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 8 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 9 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 10 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 11 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 12 | Latin | A | — |
| 13 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 15 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |
| 16 | Egyptian | 𓃾 | — |