Where does “Transjordan” come from?
Transjordan comes from English trans- combined with Jordan, which derives from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European terh₂- meaning "to cross."
Transjordan (English): The region located east of the Jordan River
Definitions
- The region located east of the Jordan River
Ancestry of “Transjordan”, step by step
Transjordan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 2 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 3 | English | gender | kind |
| 4 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 5 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |