Where does “ashtray” come from?
Ashtray comes from English ash and English trey, from Old English æsc, Latin tradere, Latin do, Latin do, and Proto-Indo-European terh₂-.
ashtray (English): A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes...
Definitions
- A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes...
Ancestry of “ashtray”, step by step
ashtray traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Ash
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ash | The Egyptian god of oases |
| 2 | Middle English | asshe | ashes; The remnants of a lifeform; The matter... |
| 3 | Old English | æsc | ash tree; spear; ship |
| 4 | Old English | æsċ | ash tree; ash, spear, lance, ship |
| 5 | Old English | trēo | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | treu | tree; wood |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | trewą | tree |
| 8 | English | doru | Alternative form of dory |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | δόρυ | wood, tree, stem; spear shaft, spear, lance,... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | dóru | tree |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dóru | tree |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | drew- | hard, firm, strong, solid; hard, fast; tree |
via English tray
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tray | A small, typically rectangular or round, flat,... |
| 2 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 3 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 4 | English | gender | kind |
| 5 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 6 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 7 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |