Where does “Paralympic Games” come from?
Paralympic Games (English) comes from English Olympic Games, from English games, from English game, from Middle English game, from Old English gamen, from Proto-West Germanic gaman, from Proto-Germanic gamaną, from Proto-Germanic ga- — resin, gum; to say, speak.
Paralympic Games (English): An international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue
Definitions
- An international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue
Ancestry of “Paralympic Games”, step by step
Paralympic Games traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Olympic Games
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Olympic Games | An international multi-sport event (inspired by the ancient festival) taking place every fourth year |
| 2 | English | games | plural of game; Third-person singular simple... |
| 3 | English | game | A playful or competitive activity; A video game;... |
| 4 | Middle English | game | Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is... |
| 5 | Old English | gamen | game, sport, or pastime; joy, mirth, or pleasure |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | gaman | pleasure, fun, amusement, entertainment |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | gamaną | a fellow human, associate, companion; pleasure,... |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | ga- | Indicates association or togetherness; co-;... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English paraplegic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | paraplegic | Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia; A... |
| 2 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 4 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 5 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 6 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 8 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 9 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 10 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |