Where does “permet” come from?
permet (Mauritian Creole) comes from French permettre, from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittere, from Latin permitto, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
permet (Mauritian Creole): to allow; to permit
Definitions
- to allow; to permit
Ancestry of “permet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | permettre | to permit, to allow; to take the liberty of doing... |
| 2 | Middle French | permettre | to permit, to allow |
| 3 | Latin | permittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | permitto | I let go, let loose; cast, hurl, throw; send... |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |