Where does “sondar” come from?
sondar (Ido) comes from Russian зонди́ровать, from Russian -и́ровать, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre — he, she.
sondar (Ido): to take soundings in; to sound: ascertain the...
Definitions
- to take soundings in; to sound: ascertain the...
Ancestry of “sondar”, step by step
sondar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian зонди́ровать
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | зонди́ровать | to probe, to search, to sound |
| 2 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 3 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 4 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 6 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 7 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 8 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Italian sondare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | sondare | to sound; to drill, bore; to probe |
| 2 | French | sonder | to probe; to survey and take measurements using a... |
| 3 | Middle French | sonder | — |
| 4 | Old French | sonder | to plumb |
| 5 | Old French | sonde | sounding line |
| 6 | Old English | sund | swimming; sea, water |
| 7 | Old Norse | sund | swimming; strait, sound; swimming, sound |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | sundą | swimming; sound, strait |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | swimmaną | to be unsteady; to swim; float |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | swem(bʰ)- | to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim |
via Spanish sondear
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | sondear | to sound, to probe; to plumb, to fathom; to sound... |
| 2 | Spanish | -ear | forms verbs from adjectives, nouns and some... |
| 3 | Latin | -izāre | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ίζειν | present active infinitive of -ίζω; -ize |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ίζω | Used to form verbs from nouns, adjectives and... |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | -íďďō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -idyéti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -id- | — |