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Where does “sortere” come from?

sortere (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Italian sortire, from French sortir, from Old French sortir, from Latin sortire, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

sortere (Norwegian Bokmål): comparative degree of sort; to sort

Definitions

  1. comparative degree of sort; to sort

Ancestry of “sortere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansortireto produce
2Frenchsortirto exit, go out, come out; to take out, bring...
3Old Frenchsortirallot, sort; to go out
4Latinsortiresecond-person singular present active imperative...
5Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
6Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
7Latinlegō—
8Latinlēx—
9Proto-Italiclēg-—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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