Where does “pafwa” come from?
pafwa (Haitian Creole) comes from French parfois, from French par, from Middle French par, from Old French par, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
pafwa (Haitian Creole): sometimes
Definitions
- sometimes
Ancestry of “pafwa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | parfois | sometimes |
| 2 | French | par | through; by; over |
| 3 | Middle French | par | by |
| 4 | Old French | par | by; via; because of; due to; by |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |