Where does “pami” come from?
pami (Haitian Creole) comes from French parmi, from French par, from Middle French par, from Old French par, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
pami (Haitian Creole): among
Definitions
- among
Ancestry of “pami”, step by step
pami traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French parmi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | parmi | among, amongst; amid, amidst |
| 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 |
via Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sbal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *sbal | frog |