Where does “promé” come from?
promé (Papiamentu) comes from Kabuverdianu primeru, from Portuguese primeiro, from Old Portuguese primeiro, from Latin primarius, from Latin primus, from Latin prismos, from Latin prisemos, from Proto-Italic priisemos — passed , crossed.
promé (Papiamentu): first
Definitions
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Ancestry of “promé”, step by step
promé traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Kabuverdianu primeru
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kabuverdianu | primeru | first |
| 2 | Portuguese | primeiro | first; the first one; first of all |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | primeiro | first, ordinal form of "ũu" |
| 4 | Latin | primarius | One of the first, or first rank, chief,... |
| 5 | Latin | primus | first |
| 6 | Latin | prismos | — |
| 7 | Latin | prisemos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | priisemos | foremost, first |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Spanish primero
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | primero | former, first, first one |
| 2 | Old Spanish | primero | first |
| 3 | Latin | prīmārius | One of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent, remarkable. It was used as the title of a position in universities |
| 4 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |