Where does “volim” come from?
volim (Haitian Creole) comes from French volume, from Latin volūmen, from Latin volvō, from Proto-Indo-European wēl-.
volim (Haitian Creole): volume
Ancestry of “volim”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | volume | volume; an overly long piece of writing |
| 2 | Latin | volūmen | — |
| 3 | Latin | volvō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wēl- | — |