Where does “coexister” come from?
coexister (English) comes from English coëxist, from English exist, from French exister, from Spanish existir, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — resin.
coexister (English): One who coexists
Ancestry of “coexister”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | coëxist | Alternative spelling of coexist |
| 2 | English | exist | to be; have existence; have being or reality |
| 3 | French | exister | to exist |
| 4 | Spanish | existir | to exist |
| 5 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 6 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | — |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |