Where does “atbildēt” come from?

atbildēt (Latvian) comes from Latvian bildēt, from Latvian bilde, from Middle Low German bilde, from Old Saxon bilithi, from Proto-West Germanic *biliþi — likeness, image.

atbildēt (Latvian): to answer; to answer, to recite; to answer, to...

Definitions

  1. to answer; to answer, to recite; to answer, to...

Ancestry of “atbildēt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latvianbildētto say
2Latvianbildepicture, image
3Middle Low Germanbilde—
4Old Saxonbilithi—
5Proto-West Germanic*biliþilikeness, image

Words derived from “atbildēt”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *biliþi →Every word from Old Saxon bilithi →Every word from Middle Low German bilde →