Where does “afrikanisera” come from?
afrikanisera (Swedish) comes from English Africanize, from English African, from Old French Affrican, from Latin africanus, from Latin Āfrica, from Latin āfricus, from Latin Āfri, from Albanian afër — the god Apis.
afrikanisera (Swedish): Africanize
Definitions
- Africanize
Ancestry of “afrikanisera”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Africanize | To make African |
| 2 | English | African | Of or pertaining to Africa; Black; synonym of... |
| 3 | Old French | Affrican | African person |
| 4 | Latin | africanus | African |
| 5 | Latin | Āfrica | the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of Cyrenaica |
| 6 | Latin | āfricus | African |
| 7 | Latin | Āfri | — |
| 8 | Albanian | afër | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 9 | Proto-Albanian | apsera | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 10 | Proto-Albanian | aps | — |
| 11 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 13 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 14 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |