Where does “Säajelpost” come from?
Säajelpost (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Post, from Middle Low German post, from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, from Italian posto, from Latin positus, from Latin pōnō, from Proto-Italic poznō.
Säajelpost (Plautdietsch): mast (of a sailing ship)
Definitions
- mast (of a sailing ship)
Ancestry of “Säajelpost”, step by step
Säajelpost traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Plautdietsch Post
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plautdietsch | Post | mail, post |
| 2 | Middle Low German | post | — |
| 3 | Middle French | poste | — |
| 4 | Italian | posta | mail, post; post office; stakes |
| 5 | Italian | posto | place, spot |
| 6 | Latin | positus | placed; ordained |
| 7 | Latin | pōnō | to place; to put; to lay |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | poznō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | pozinō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | sinō | — |
via Plautdietsch Säajel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plautdietsch | Säajel | sail |
| 2 | Middle Low German | segel | sail |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *sigil | seal |
| 4 | Latin | sigillum | figurine, statuette; seal |
| 5 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |