Where does “Kimbit” come from?
Kimbit (English) comes from English Timbit, from English Tim, from English Timothy, from Middle French Timothée, from Latin Timotheus, from Ancient Greek Τιμόθεος, from Ancient Greek Θεός, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Kimbit (English): A fan of Kim's Convenience (2016–2021 on CBC), a Canadian sitcom about a Korean-owned convenience store and the Korean-Canadian family which runs it
Definitions
- A fan of Kim's Convenience (2016–2021 on CBC), a Canadian sitcom about a Korean-owned convenience store and the Korean-Canadian family which runs it
Ancestry of “Kimbit”, step by step
Kimbit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Timbit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Timbit | A bite-sized doughnut ball sold at the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain and sometimes jocularly regarded as an icon of Canadian culture |
| 2 | English | Tim | A Catholic; A supporter of the Scottish football... |
| 3 | English | Timothy | Either of two books in the New Testament (1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) which are epistles to Timothy |
| 4 | Middle French | Timothée | — |
| 5 | Latin | Timotheus | Timothy |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Τιμόθεος | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | Θεός | God |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via English Kim
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Kim | An Mbum language of southern Chad |
| 2 | English | Kimberley | Any of several places |
| 3 | Old English | lēah | meadow; clearing with a pigsty; woodland,... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | lauh | clearing; meadow |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | lauhaz | clearing; meadow |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | lówkos | clearing; open space, clearing; field, meadow |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | lewḱ- | lynx |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | lewk- | bright; to shine; to see |