Where does “жанда́рм” come from?
жанда́рм (Russian) comes from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
жанда́рм (Russian): gendarme
Definitions
- gendarme
Ancestry of “жанда́рм”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 2 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 3 | French | gens | set of people |
| 4 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 5 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 6 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 7 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 9 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |