Where does “escassesa” come from?
escassesa (Catalan) comes from Catalan escàs, from Latin excarsus, from Late Latin excarpsus, from Latin excarpere, from Latin excerpere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — resin.
escassesa (Catalan): scarcity
Ancestry of “escassesa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Catalan | escàs | little; mere; insufficient, not enough |
| 2 | Latin | excarsus | — |
| 3 | Late Latin | excarpsus | rare |
| 4 | Latin | excarpere | take out; pluck out |
| 5 | Latin | excerpere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |