Where does “navigator” come from?
navigator (Romanian) comes from Italian navigatore, from Latin navigātor, from Latin nāvigō, from Latin nāvis, from Proto-Italic naus, from German hinaus, from German aus, from Old High German ūz — out, outward.
navigator (Romanian): navigator; browser
Ancestry of “navigator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | navigatore | navigator, seaman, sailor, mariner; websurfer |
| 2 | Latin | navigātor | — |
| 3 | Latin | nāvigō | — |
| 4 | Latin | nāvis | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | naus | — |
| 6 | German | hinaus | out |
| 7 | German | aus | out; over; finished; done; up; off |
| 8 | Old High German | ūz | out |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | *ūt | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | ūt | out, outward |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |