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Where does “Transcaucasian” come from?

Transcaucasian (English) comes from English Transcaucasia, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

Transcaucasian (English): in, from or otherwise relating to Transcaucasia,...

Definitions

  1. in, from or otherwise relating to Transcaucasia,...

Ancestry of “Transcaucasian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTranscaucasia—
2EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
3EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
4EnglishgenderClass; kind; A division of nouns and pronouns ...
5Middle Englishgender—
6Middle Frenchgendre—
7Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
8Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth
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