Where does “Afemass” come from?
Afemass (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.
Afemass (Luxembourgish): a wedding service with more gawkers than attendants or religious personnel
Definitions
- a wedding service with more gawkers than attendants or religious personnel
Ancestry of “Afemass”, step by step
Afemass traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Scottish Gaelic AFE
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottish Gaelic | AFE | IPA International Phonetic Alphabet |
| 2 | French | affaire | affair, business; deal; belonging |
| 3 | Old French | afaire | character; disposition; situation; event;... |
| 4 | Old French | faire | to do |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Luxembourgish Mass
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourgish | Mass | mass; Mass; mass; paste, dough |
| 2 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 3 | Old French | mace | mace weapon |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 5 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |