Where does “avigation” come from?
avigation (English) comes from English navigation, from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiō, from Latin nāvigō, from Latin nāvis, from Proto-Italic naus, from German hinaus, from German aus — out, outward.
avigation (English): aerial navigation
Definitions
- aerial navigation
Ancestry of “avigation”, step by step
avigation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English navigation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | navigation | The theory, practice and technology of charting a... |
| 2 | Middle French | navigation | — |
| 3 | Latin | nāvigātiō | The act of sailing or voyaging; voyage, navigation |
| 4 | Latin | nāvigō | to sail, navigate, seafare, embark |
| 5 | Latin | nāvis | ship, boat, vessel; a fleet in the plural |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | naus | — |
| 7 | German | hinaus | out |
| 8 | German | aus | out; over; finished; done; up; off |
| 9 | Old High German | ūz | out |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | *ūt | out, outward |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | ūt | out, outward |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |
via English aerial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | aerial | Living or taking place in the air; Made up of air... |
| 2 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 3 | English | aldehyde | Any of a large class of reactive organic... |
| 4 | German | Aldehyd | aldehyde |
| 5 | Latin | alcohol | kohl, collyrium, stibium; any other powder... |
| 6 | Andalusian Arabic | كُحُول | — |
| 7 | Arabic | كحل | antimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the... |
| 8 | Arabic | كُحْل | antimony; kohl, stibnite |
| 9 | Akkadian | guḫlum | kohl, antimony paste |