Where does “combatantă” come from?
combatantă (Romanian) comes from Romanian combatant, from French combattant, from French combattre, from Middle French combatre, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin combattere, from Latin com-, from Latin con- — resin, gum; to say, speak.
Ancestry of “combatantă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | combatant | fighting |
| 2 | French | combattant | present participle of combattre; combatant;... |
| 3 | French | combattre | to fight, to combat; to oppose, to struggle |
| 4 | Middle French | combatre | to combat |
| 5 | Old French | combatre | to combat; to engage in battle or warfare |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | combattere | present active infinitive of *combattō |
| 7 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 8 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |