Where does “calcify” come from?

calcify (English) comes from French calcifier, from French calcium, from English calcium, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

calcify (English): To make something hard and stony by impregnating...

Definitions

  1. To make something hard and stony by impregnating...

Ancestry of “calcify”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcalcifierto calcify
2Frenchcalciumcalcium
3EnglishcalciumThe chemical element (symbol Ca) with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks
4English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
5Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
6Proto-Italic*-om
7Proto-Indo-European*-oHom

Words derived from “calcify

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom
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