Where does “absorbed” come from?
Absorbed comes from Middle French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, combining the prefix ab- with srebʰ-, a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to sip or drink.
absorbed (English): Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed;...
Definitions
- Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed;...
Ancestry of “absorbed”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | absorb | To include so that it no longer has separate... |
| 2 | Middle French | absorber | — |
| 3 | Latin | absorbeō | to swallow down, devour |
| 4 | Latin | sorbeo | I suck in, drink up |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | sorβeō | to suck in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | srobʰéyeti | to be sipping, sucking; to cause to sip, suck |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |