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Where does “Rampli” come from?

Rampli (Luxembourgish) comes from French remblai, from French remblayer, from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

Rampli (Luxembourgish): embankment

Definitions

  1. embankment

Ancestry of “Rampli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchremblaiembankment; landfill
2Frenchremblayerto fill in or backfill
3French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
4Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
5Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
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