Where does “saante” come from?
saante (Sidamo) comes from Amharic ሳንቲም, from French centime, from French cent, from English cent, from Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Latin folium.
saante (Sidamo): coin
Definitions
- coin
Ancestry of “saante”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amharic | ሳንቲም | coin |
| 2 | French | centime | centime (hundredth of a franc, coin) |
| 3 | French | cent | hundred; cent |
| 4 | English | cent | A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of... |
| 5 | Middle English | cent | — |
| 6 | Old French | cent | one hundred |
| 7 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 8 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |