Where does “Paranilotic” come from?
Paranilotic (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
Paranilotic (English): Of or relating to a subgroup of the Nilotic languages, comprising those of the east and south, thought to be a mixture of (Western) Nilotic and Hamitic languages (in particular, modern Cushitic), based on racial and other non-linguistic considerations
Definitions
- Of or relating to a subgroup of the Nilotic languages, comprising those of the east and south, thought to be a mixture of (Western) Nilotic and Hamitic languages (in particular, modern Cushitic), based on racial and other non-linguistic considerations
Ancestry of “Paranilotic”, step by step
Paranilotic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English Nilotic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Nilotic | Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who... |
| 2 | Latin | nīlōticus | Nilotic; belonging to the Nile |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Νειλώτης | in or on the Nile |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | νεῖλος | river valley |
| 5 | Arabic | نِيل | indigo |
| 6 | Persian | نیل | indigo |
| 7 | Arabic | نيل | verbal noun of نَالَ; indigo; to colour indigo |
| 8 | Middle Persian | 𐭭𐭩𐭫 | indigo |
| 9 | Sanskrit | नील | of a dark color |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | neyH- | to lead |