Where does “carrotlike” come from?
carrotlike (English) comes from English carrot, from Middle English karette, from Translingual Caretta, from French caret, from French car, from Latin quare, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio — shoe.
carrotlike (English): Resembling a carrot or some aspect of one
Definitions
- Resembling a carrot or some aspect of one
Ancestry of “carrotlike”, step by step
carrotlike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English carrot
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | carrot | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root... |
| 2 | Middle English | karette | carrot |
| 3 | Translingual | Caretta | genus |
| 4 | French | caret | loggerhead turtle; hawksbill turtle; spool, reel |
| 5 | French | car | as, since, because, for; a single-decked... |
| 6 | Latin | quare | by what means, how; from what cause, on what... |
| 7 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 8 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 9 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 10 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 11 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 12 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 13 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 14 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 15 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
via English like
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | like | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;... |
| 2 | Dutch | luik | hatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | luke | — |
| 4 | Dutch | luiken | to close, to shut |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | luken | to close, to shut; to close, to become closed |
| 6 | Old Dutch | lūcan | to close, shut |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | lūkan | to close, to shut |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | lūkaną | to close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | lewǵ- | to break, tear; to break, shatter |