Where does “primeru” come from?
primeru (Kabuverdianu) comes from Portuguese primeiro, from Old Portuguese primeiro, from Latin primarius, from Latin primus, from Latin prismos, from Latin prisemos, from Proto-Italic priisemos, from Proto-Indo-European per- — passed , crossed.
primeru (Kabuverdianu): first
Definitions
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Ancestry of “primeru”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | primeiro | first; the first one; first of all |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | primeiro | first, ordinal form of "ũu" |
| 3 | Latin | primarius | One of the first, or first rank, chief,... |
| 4 | Latin | primus | first |
| 5 | Latin | prismos | — |
| 6 | Latin | prisemos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | priisemos | foremost, first |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |