Where does “sort” come from?
sort (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
sort (Norwegian Nynorsk): a sort, kind or type
Ancestry of “sort”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | sorte | sort, kind, type; way, manner; first/third-person... |
| 2 | Old French | sorte | sort; type |
| 3 | Italian | sorta | sort, type, kind; feminine singular past... |
| 4 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 5 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | legō | — |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |