Where does “Timbit” come from?
Timbit (English) comes 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, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Timbit (English): A bite-sized doughnut ball sold at the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain and sometimes jocularly regarded as an icon of Canadian culture
Definitions
- A bite-sized doughnut ball sold at the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain and sometimes jocularly regarded as an icon of Canadian culture
Ancestry of “Timbit”, step by step
Timbit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Tim
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Tim | A Catholic; A supporter of the Scottish football... |
| 2 | English | Timothy | Either of two books in the New Testament (1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) which are epistles to Timothy |
| 3 | Middle French | Timothée | — |
| 4 | Latin | Timotheus | Timothy |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Τιμόθεος | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Θεός | God |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via English bit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bit | A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and... |
| 2 | Middle English | bitte | A flexible container for water or wine; a waterskin or wineskin |
| 3 | Old English | byt | bottle, flagon |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *buttjā | — |
| 5 | Latin | buttia | cask, barrel |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | βούττιον | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ῐον | diminutive suffix; "suffix forming... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |