Where does “parents” come from?
parents (Catalan) comes from Catalan parent, from Latin parēns, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
parents (Catalan): plural of parent
Ancestry of “parents”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Catalan | parent | relative |
| 2 | Latin | parēns | — |
| 3 | Latin | pariō | — |
| 4 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 8 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |