Where does “altfel” come from?
altfel (Romanian) comes from Romanian alt, from Ido altru, from Ido altra, from French autre, from Middle French aultre, from Old French autre, from Old French vie, from Old French viḍe — to live.
altfel (Romanian): otherwise; differently; else
Definitions
- otherwise; differently; else
Ancestry of “altfel”, step by step
altfel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian alt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | alt | other |
| 2 | Ido | altru | another person, someone else |
| 3 | Ido | altra | other, another |
| 4 | French | autre | other; another |
| 5 | Middle French | aultre | other; another; someone else; another person |
| 6 | Old French | autre | Alternative form of altre; other |
| 7 | Old French | vie | life |
| 8 | Old French | viḍe | — |
| 9 | Latin | vitam | accusative singular of vīta |
| 10 | Latin | vīta | life |
| 11 | Latin | vīvō | to live |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | gʷīwō | live, be alive |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷíh₃weti | to live, to be alive |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷih₃wós | alive, living |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷeih₃w- | to live |
via Romanian fel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | fel | sort, type, kind; manner, style, way |
| 2 | Hungarian | -féle | sort of, type of; related to someone, created by... |
| 3 | Hungarian | fél | to fear, to be afraid of something; to fear... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | pide | tall |
| 5 | Finnish | pitää | to hold, grasp, grip; to keep, take; to like, be... |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | pitädäk | to hold, to grasp; to keep |
| 7 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | pitä- | — |