Where does “Adamic” come from?
Adamic comes from English Adam, influenced by French -ique and Latin -icus suffixes deriving from Proto-Indo-European -kos, ultimately from Hebrew אדמה meaning "earth" or "ground."
Adamic (English): Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical...
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- Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical...
Ancestry of “Adamic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Adam | — |
| 2 | Middle English | Adam | — |
| 3 | Old English | Adam | — |
| 4 | Latin | Ādām | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἀδάμ | — |
| 6 | Hebrew | אָדָם | earth, man, soil, light brown; Adam; man, person |
| 7 | Hebrew | אדמה | earth, soil, land |
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