Where does “ajudan” come from?
ajudan (Indonesian) comes from Malay ajudan, from Dutch adjudant, from French adjudant, from Spanish ayudante, from Spanish -ante, from Latin -āns, from Latin -ns, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts — sound, voice.
ajudan (Indonesian): adjutant
Definitions
- adjutant
Ancestry of “ajudan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malay | ajudan | adjutant |
| 2 | Dutch | adjudant | adjutant; assistant |
| 3 | French | adjudant | adjutant; warrant officer |
| 4 | Spanish | ayudante | auxiliary; helper, assistant |
| 5 | Spanish | -ante | Forms adjectives from verbs |
| 6 | Latin | -āns | Ending of the present active participle of first conjugation verbs; see -ns |
| 7 | Latin | -ns | -ing; ending of the present active participle |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 9 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 10 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 11 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 12 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 13 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 14 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |