Where does “Afefett” come from?

Afefett (Luxembourgish) comes from Scottish Gaelic AFE, from French affaire, from Old French afaire, from Old French faire, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

Afefett (Luxembourgish): spit

Definitions

  1. spit

Ancestry of “Afefett”, step by step

Afefett traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Scottish Gaelic AFE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Scottish GaelicAFEIPA International Phonetic Alphabet
2Frenchaffaireaffair, business; deal; belonging
3Old Frenchafairecharacter; disposition; situation; event;...
4Old Frenchfaireto do
5Latinfaciōto do
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōriusory
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via Luxembourgish Fett

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LuxembourgishFett
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -toriumEvery word from Latin -tor