Where does “جدرمي” come from?
جدرمي (Moroccan Arabic) comes from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
جدرمي (Moroccan Arabic): gendarme
Definitions
- gendarme
Ancestry of “جدرمي”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 2 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 3 | French | gens | set of people |
| 4 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 5 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 6 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 7 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 9 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |