Where does “challengingness” come from?
challengingness (English) comes from English challenging, from Middle English chalengynge, from Middle English chalengen, from Old French chalengier, from Latin calumnior, from Latin calumnia, from Proto-Italic kalwomniā, from Proto-Italic kalwomnos — deceiving, accusing.
challengingness (English): Quality or degree of being challenging
Definitions
- Quality or degree of being challenging
Ancestry of “challengingness”, step by step
challengingness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English challenging
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | challenging | present participle of challenge; Difficult, hard... |
| 2 | Middle English | chalengynge | Slander, defamation; the propagation of untrue and unflattering claims |
| 3 | Middle English | chalengen | To insult, criticise, or reprehend something or... |
| 4 | Old French | chalengier | Alternative form of chalongier |
| 5 | Latin | calumnior | I depreciate, misrepresent, cavil at, calumniate,... |
| 6 | Latin | calumnia | A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kalwomniā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kalwomnos | deceiving, accusing |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |