Where does “voryen” come from?
voryen (Haitian Creole) comes from French vaurien, from French rien, from Middle French rien, from Old French rien, from Latin rem, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio, from Latin vindicō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
voryen (Haitian Creole): good-for-nothing, scoundrel
Definitions
- good-for-nothing, scoundrel
Ancestry of “voryen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | vaurien | good-for-nothing person regarded as useless or worthless |
| 2 | French | rien | nothing; anything |
| 3 | Middle French | rien | thing |
| 4 | Old French | rien | thing; object; being; creature; thing |
| 5 | Latin | rem | accusative singular of rēs |
| 6 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 7 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 8 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 9 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 10 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 11 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 12 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 13 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 14 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 15 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 16 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 17 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |