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Where does “garantir” come from?

garantir (Portuguese) comes from French garantir, from Old French guarantir, from English undefined, from English Un-, from Middle English un-, from Old English un-, from Proto-West Germanic un-, from Proto-Germanic un- — not.

garantir (Portuguese): To guarantee

Definitions

  1. To guarantee

Ancestry of “garantir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgarantirto guarantee; to protect, preserve
2Old Frenchguarantirto protect
3EnglishundefinedLacking a definition or value; That does not have...
4EnglishUn-—
5Middle Englishun-—
6Old Englishun-negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms...
7Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
8Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
9Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
10Proto-Indo-Europeannenot
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