Where does “comfortfic” come from?

comfortfic (English) comes from English comfort, from Middle English confort, from Old French confort, from Old French conforter, from Latin confortō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...

comfortfic (English): Fan fiction read in order to make oneself feel...

Definitions

  1. Fan fiction read in order to make oneself feel...

Ancestry of “comfortfic”, step by step

comfortfic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English comfort

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcomfortContentment, ease; Something that offers comfort;...
2Middle Englishconfort
3Old Frenchconfort
4Old Frenchconforterto reassure; to comfort
5Latinconfortōto make stronger, strengthen
6Latincōn-Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects
7Latincumwith, along with; at; -fold
8Old LatincomAlternative form of cum
9Proto-Italickomwith, along, at
10Proto-Indo-Europeanḱómbeside, near, by, with
11Proto-Indo-EuropeanḱeDeictic particle, here; Post-positional...
12Middle Englishkyt
13Germankittputty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes
14Old High Germankuti
15Proto-West Germanickwidugum, resin
16Proto-Germanickweduzresin
17Proto-Indo-Europeangʷet-resin, gum; to say, speak
18Proto-Indo-Europeangū-to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...

via English fic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishficA fictional story set within a preexisting...
2Englishfanficfan fiction; a work of fan fiction
3Englishfan fictionAmateur fiction created by fans, incorporating...
4EnglishfictionLiterary type using invented or imaginative...
5Middle EnglishficciounAn invention or fabrication
6Old Frenchficciondissimulation, ruse, invention
7Latinfictiofashioning, forming, formation; fiction
8Latin-tiōtion, -ation, -ing
9Latindissertātiō(spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition
10Latindissertusarranged, disposed; explained
11Latindissereresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
12Latindis-asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
13Latincalceusshoe
14Latincalxlimestone; chalk; the finish line
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gū-Every word from Latin cōn-Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷet-