Where does “dezavua” come from?
dezavua (Romanian) comes from French désavouer, from French avouer, from Old French avoer, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
dezavua (Romanian): to disavow
Definitions
- to disavow
Ancestry of “dezavua”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | désavouer | to take back; to disown; to disavow |
| 2 | French | avouer | to avow; to confess; to approve |
| 3 | Old French | avoer | — |
| 4 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |