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Where does “Afferstack” come from?

Afferstack (Luxembourgish) comes from Luxembourgish Affer, from German Affäre, from French affaire, from Old French afaire, from Old French faire, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.

Afferstack (Luxembourgish): offertory box

Definitions

  1. offertory box

Ancestry of “Afferstack”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LuxembourgishAffersacrifice; victim; offertory
2GermanAffäreaffair, business; affair, fling
3Frenchaffaireaffair, business; deal; belonging
4Old Frenchafairecharacter; disposition; situation; event;...
5Old Frenchfaireto do
6Latinfaciō—
7Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
8Latin-tōrius—
9Latin-tor-er
10Proto-Italic-tōr—
11Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
12Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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