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Where does “substituten” come from?

substituten (Middle English) comes from Latin substitutus, from Latin substituo, from Latin statuo, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō, from Proto-Italic staēō, from Proto-Indo-European sth₂éh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Ancestry of “substituten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsubstitutussubstituted
2LatinsubstituoI place next to, under, or instead of; I...
3LatinstatuoI set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I...
4Latinstātus—
5Latinstō—
6Proto-Italicstaēōstand
7Proto-Indo-Europeansth₂éh₁yeti—
8Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-—

Words derived from “substituten”

  • substitute
  • substituting
  • substitutability
  • substitutable
  • substitutive
  • substitutivity
  • nonsubstitutable
  • unsubstitutable
  • intersubstitutable
  • nonsubstitutability
  • intersubstitutability
  • substitutor
  • substitutively
  • substituteth
  • resubstitute
  • intersubstitute
  • substitutee
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