Where does “komercar” come from?
komercar (Ido) comes from Ido komerco, from Esperanto komerco, from English commerce, from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium, from Latin com-, from Latin con-, from Latin cum — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
komercar (Ido): to trade, deal
Definitions
- to trade, deal
Ancestry of “komercar”, step by step
komercar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Ido komerco
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ido | komerco | commerce; trade |
| 2 | Esperanto | komerco | commerce, business; trade, transaction |
| 3 | English | commerce | The exchange or buying and selling of... |
| 4 | Middle French | commerce | — |
| 5 | Latin | commercium | Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange; Intercourse,... |
| 6 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 7 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via French commercer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | commercer | to trade |
| 2 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Italian commerciare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | commerciare | to trade, deal |
| 2 | Latin | commercior | to trade |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |