Where does “impormante” come from?
impormante (Tagalog) comes from Spanish informante, from Latin informans, from Latin īnfōrmō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
impormante (Tagalog): informant
Definitions
- informant
Ancestry of “impormante”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | informante | informant, telltale |
| 2 | Latin | informans | forming, moulding, fashioning, giving shape to;... |
| 3 | Latin | īnfōrmō | to form, mould, fashion, give shape to |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |