Where does “amendya” come from?
amendya (Cornish) comes from English amend, from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
amendya (Cornish): to amend
Definitions
- to amend
Ancestry of “amendya”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | amend | To make better; improve; To become better; To... |
| 2 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 3 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 4 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |