Where does “ġermanju” come from?
ġermanju (Maltese) comes from Esperanto Germanio, from Esperanto germano, from Esperanto germana, from English Germanic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem — in.
ġermanju (Maltese): germanium
Definitions
- germanium
Ancestry of “ġermanju”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | Germanio | — |
| 2 | Esperanto | germano | a German |
| 3 | Esperanto | germana | German; Clipping of la germana lingvo |
| 4 | English | Germanic | Relating to the Germanic peoples; Relating to the... |
| 5 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 6 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 7 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 8 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 9 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 10 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 11 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 12 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 14 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 15 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |