Where does “existence” come from?
existence (Czech) comes from Latin existentia, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
existence (Czech): existence
Definitions
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Ancestry of “existence”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | existentia | existence |
| 2 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 3 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 4 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 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 |