Where does “Indus script” come from?
Indus script (English) comes from English Indus, from English industry, from Middle English industry, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō — sterile, infertile.
Indus script (English): An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language
Definitions
- An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language
Ancestry of “Indus script”, step by step
Indus script traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Indus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Indus | A constellation of the southern sky between Grus and Pavo |
| 2 | English | industry | The tendency to work persistently. Diligence;... |
| 3 | Middle English | industry | — |
| 4 | Old French | industrie | — |
| 5 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 6 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 7 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
via English script
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | script | A writing; a written document; Written... |
| 2 | Middle English | scrit | writing; document; scroll |
| 3 | Old French | escrit | past participle of escrire; third-person singular... |
| 4 | Latin | scriptus | written, having been written |
| 5 | Latin | scribo | I write |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |