Where does “Kjala” come from?
Kjala (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German kellære, from Old Saxon *kellāri, from Proto-West Germanic *kellārī, from Latin cellārium, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
Kjala (Plautdietsch): basement, cellar
Definitions
- basement, cellar
Ancestry of “Kjala”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | kellære | — |
| 2 | Old Saxon | *kellāri | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *kellārī | cellar, storeroom |
| 4 | Latin | cellārium | storeroom, larder, cellar, pantry |
| 5 | Latin | -ārium | used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end |
| 6 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |