Where does “atu” come from?
atu (Romanian) comes from French atout, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn- — in.
atu (Romanian): trump
Definitions
- trump
Ancestry of “atu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | atout | trump; advantage, asset |
| 2 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 3 | English | avie | emulously |
| 4 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 5 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 6 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 7 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |