Where does “afin” come from?
afin (Romanian) comes from Latin affinis, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
afin (Romanian): blueberry, cowberry; relative by marriage
Definitions
- blueberry, cowberry; relative by marriage
Ancestry of “afin”, step by step
afin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin affinis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | affinis | neighbouring, allied to, kindred |
| 2 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 3 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Latin Dāphne
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Dāphne | Daphne |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | Δάφνη | Daphne |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | η | Lower-case eta, the seventh letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was ἦτα and it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel:. It is often transliterated as either e or i. It is preceded by ζ and followed by θ |
| 5 | Phoenician | 𐤇 | het; heth |
| 6 | Egyptian | ? | — |