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Where does “fo-oifig” come from?

fo-oifig (Irish) comes from Irish oifig, from Old Irish oific, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.

fo-oifig (Irish): suboffice

Definitions

  1. suboffice

Ancestry of “fo-oifig”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishoifigoffice; bureau
2Old Irishoificoffice
3Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
4Latinopificiumwork
5LatinopifexSomeone who does work ; worker, maker, framer,...
6LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
7Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
8Latinopscen—
9Latinob-towards; against
10Latinobolusobolus
11Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
12Ancient Greekὀβελόςa spit, rod; a horizontal line
13Ancient Greekβέλοςmissile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...
14Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷélHos—
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