Where does “frakass” come from?

frakass (Maltese) comes from Italian fracasso, from Italian fracassare, from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

frakass (Maltese): fracas, noise

Definitions

  1. fracas, noise

Ancestry of “frakass”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianfracassodin, hullabaloo; crash; fracas
2ItalianfracassareTo smash or shatter
3Latininfrabelow
4Latinīnferā
5Frenchinférerto infer
6Latinīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert
7Latinīn-un-, non-, not
8Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en