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Where does “quezzon” come from?

quezzon (Old Dutch) comes from Old French quasser, from Latin quassō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Ancestry of “quezzon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchquasserto break; to annul; to quash
2Latinquassō—
3Latin-tō—
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “quezzon”

  • onkwetsbaar
  • kwetsbaar
  • kwetsen
  • quetsen
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →