Where does “клеврѣтъ” come from?
клеврѣтъ (Old Church Slavonic) comes from Latin collivertus, from Latin collibertus, from Latin lībertus, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
Ancestry of “клеврѣтъ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | collivertus | — |
| 2 | Latin | collibertus | A fellow freedman |
| 3 | Latin | lībertus | a freedman, an emancipated person |
| 4 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 5 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 6 | French | lober | to lob |
| 7 | French | lob | lob |
| 8 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 9 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 10 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 11 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 12 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 13 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 14 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 15 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 16 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 17 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |