Where does “liber-schimbist” come from?
liber-schimbist (Romanian) comes from Romanian liber, from French libre, from Middle French libre, from Old French libre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
liber-schimbist (Romanian): free trader
Definitions
- free trader
Ancestry of “liber-schimbist”, step by step
liber-schimbist traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian liber
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | liber | free, at liberty |
| 2 | French | libre | free, at liberty; clear, free, vacant; free,... |
| 3 | Middle French | libre | free; at liberty |
| 4 | Old French | libre | free; at liberty |
| 5 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 7 | French | lober | to lob |
| 8 | French | lob | lob |
| 9 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 10 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 11 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 12 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 13 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 14 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 15 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 18 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Romanian schimb
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | schimb | change; exchange |
| 2 | Romanian | schimba | to modify, to alter; to change; to exchange |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | excambiare | present active infinitive of *excambiō;... |
| 4 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |