Where does “dustodik” come from?
dustodik (Volapük) comes from Volapük dustod, from English industry, from Middle English industry, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō — sterile, infertile.
dustodik (Volapük): industrial
Definitions
- industrial
Ancestry of “dustodik”, step by step
dustodik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Volapük dustod
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volapük | dustod | industry |
| 2 | English | industry | The tendency to work persistently. Diligence;... |
| 3 | Middle English | industry | — |
| 4 | Old French | industrie | — |
| 5 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 6 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 7 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
via Volapük ik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volapük | ik | adjective morpheme |