Where does “ardchultúr” come from?
ardchultúr (Irish) comes from Irish cultúr, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
ardchultúr (Irish): high culture
Definitions
- high culture
Ancestry of “ardchultúr”, step by step
ardchultúr traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish cultúr
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | cultúr | culture |
| 2 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |