Where does “chinelo” come from?
chinelo (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese chinela, from Italian cianella, from Italian pianella, from Italian piano, from Italian -ano, from Latin -ant, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti — he, she.
chinelo (Portuguese): slipper; flip-flop; lowlife
Definitions
- slipper; flip-flop; lowlife
Ancestry of “chinelo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | chinela | slipper |
| 2 | Italian | cianella | — |
| 3 | Italian | pianella | mule; tile |
| 4 | Italian | piano | plane; flat, level; plain |
| 5 | Italian | -ano | Used with a stem to form the third-person plural... |
| 6 | Latin | -ant | third-person plural present active indicative of... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |