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Where does “aminohexanoate” come from?

aminohexanoate (English) comes from English aminohexanoic, from English amino, from English amino-, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.

aminohexanoate (English): Any salt or ester of an aminohexanoic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of an aminohexanoic acid

Ancestry of “aminohexanoate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaminohexanoicOf or pertaining to aminohexanoic acids and their...
2EnglishaminoRelating to an amine; The amine functional group
3Englishamino-Of amines and of the amino functional group
4EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
5English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
6French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
7French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
8Middle French-é—
9Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
10Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
11Proto-Italic-ā—
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →