Where does “soussombrer” come from?
soussombrer (Middle French) comes from Middle French soussoubrer, from Portuguese soçobrar, from Spanish zozobrar, from Old Spanish sozobrar, from Old Catalan sotsobrar, from Catalan sotsobre, from Catalan sobre, from Latin super.
Ancestry of “soussombrer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | soussoubrer | — |
| 2 | Portuguese | soçobrar | To capsize, keel over |
| 3 | Spanish | zozobrar | to capsize, founder, sink; to fail; to worry, or... |
| 4 | Old Spanish | sozobrar | — |
| 5 | Old Catalan | sotsobrar | — |
| 6 | Catalan | sotsobre | capsizing |
| 7 | Catalan | sobre | on, on top of; over, above; about |
| 8 | Latin | super | "accusative" above, on the top of, upon;... |
| 9 | Latin | eks-uper | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |