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