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Where does “bricolaje” come from?

bricolaje (Spanish) comes from French bricolage, from French -age, from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.

bricolaje (Spanish): bricolage; do-it-yourself handicraft

Definitions

  1. bricolage; do-it-yourself handicraft

Ancestry of “bricolaje”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchbricolageDIY, do-it-yourself
2French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
3Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
4Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
5Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
6Latin-āticum—
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