Where does “Imants” come from?
Imants (Latvian) comes from Livonian and, from Proto-Finnic antadak, from Proto-Uralic ëmta- — to give.
Ancestry of “Imants”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Livonian | and | to give |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | antadak | to give |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | ëmta- | to give |