Where does “crône” come from?
crône (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch corōna, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
crône (Middle Dutch): crown, wreath
Definitions
- crown, wreath
Ancestry of “crône”, step by step
crône traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Dutch corōna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Dutch | corōna | — |
| 2 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 3 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 4 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 5 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 6 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English crane
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crane | Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with... |
| 2 | Middle English | crane | crane; cranium |
| 3 | Old French | cran | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | cranium | skull |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κρανίον | skull; head |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κάρα | head, face; the head or top of anything, as of a... |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *kárahə | — |