Where does “fannulla” come from?

fannulla (Italian) comes from Italian fà, from Italian fare, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.

fannulla (Italian): good-for-nothing, idler, loafer

Definitions

  1. good-for-nothing, idler, loafer

Ancestry of “fannulla”, step by step

fannulla traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianMisspelling of fa; Misspelling of fa'
2Italianfareto do; to make; to provoke
3Latinfaciōto do
4Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
5Latin-tōriusory
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via Italian nulla

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiannullafeminine singular of nullo; nothing, anything;...
2Latinnūllano
3Latinnūllusno one, none, not any, nothing
4Proto-Italicoinoscardinal number 1 Previous: n/a Next: *duō;...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanóynosone; single

Words derived from “fannulla

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -toriumEvery word from Latin -tor
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