Where does “creaturelessness” come from?
creaturelessness (English) comes from English creatureless, from English creature, from English create, from Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥- — army.
creaturelessness (English): Absence of creatures
Definitions
- Absence of creatures
Ancestry of “creaturelessness”, step by step
creaturelessness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English creatureless
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | creatureless | Devoid of living creatures |
| 2 | English | creature | A living being; an animal; A human; A created... |
| 3 | English | create | To bring into existence |
| 4 | Middle English | createn | To make, invent, or create; To grant or bestow a... |
| 5 | Latin | creātus | created, having been created, made, having been made, produced, having been produced |
| 6 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
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 |