Where does “אַספּיראַנט” come from?
אַספּיראַנט (Yiddish) comes from Russian аспира́нт, from Latin aspirans, from Latin aspīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
אַספּיראַנט (Yiddish): candidate, aspirant
Definitions
- candidate, aspirant
Ancestry of “אַספּיראַנט”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | аспира́нт | postgraduate, graduate student a person continuing to study after completing a degree |
| 2 | Latin | aspirans | breathing or blowing upon; assisting; aspiring to |
| 3 | Latin | aspīrō | to breathe or blow upon |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |