Where does “ажиотаж” come from?
ажиотаж (Russian) comes from French agiotage, from French agioter, from French agio, from Italian aggio, from Old Occitan aize, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad- — in.
ажиотаж (Russian): stockjobbing, agiotage, rush; stir, hullabaloo
Definitions
- stockjobbing, agiotage, rush; stir, hullabaloo
Ancestry of “ажиотаж”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | agiotage | agiotage; speculation |
| 2 | French | agioter | to speculate |
| 3 | French | agio | exchange premium, agio |
| 4 | Italian | aggio | premium |
| 5 | Old Occitan | aize | ease |
| 6 | Latin | adiacēns | — |
| 7 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 10 | Latin | în | — |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |