Where does “aki” come from?
aki (Indonesian) comes from Dutch accu, from Dutch accumulator, from French accumulateur, from French -eur, from Middle French -eur, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor.
aki (Indonesian): grandfather
Definitions
- grandfather
Ancestry of “aki”, step by step
aki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch accu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | accu | battery; accumulator |
| 2 | Dutch | accumulator | battery, accumulator |
| 3 | French | accumulateur | accumulator, battery |
| 4 | French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs; API f; -ness |
| 5 | Middle French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs |
| 6 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 7 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |