Where does “biglietto” come from?
biglietto (Italian) comes from French billet, from Old French billette, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-.
biglietto (Italian): ticket; card; note, slip
Definitions
- ticket; card; note, slip
Ancestry of “biglietto”, step by step
biglietto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French billet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | billet | ticket; note, a brief message; banknote |
| 2 | Old French | billette | billet |
| 3 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 5 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 6 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Middle French billette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | billette | small ball; a game using small balls; firewood;... |
| 2 | Middle French | bullette | seal; a letter with such a seal |
| 3 | Old French | bulleite | seal |
| 4 | Old French | -ette | Alternative form of -ete |
| 5 | Latin | -itta | — |
| 6 | Hungarian | iszik | to drink |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | jëxe- | to drink; to flow? |