Where does “damaging” come from?
Damaging derives from English damage plus the suffix -ing, tracing through Middle English and Old English -ing to Latin damnum, meaning loss or harm, combined with Latin -aticus and -icus suffixes ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos and the root deh₂-.
damaging (English): present participle of damage; Harmful; injurious;...
Definitions
- present participle of damage; Harmful; injurious;...
Ancestry of “damaging”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | damage | Injury or harm; the condition or measure of... |
| 2 | Middle English | damage | damage, harm, injury |
| 3 | Old French | damage | damage; injury, hurt, insult |
| 4 | Old Occitan | damnatge | damage; harm, etc |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | damnaticum | damage |
| 6 | Latin | damnum | damage or injury; loss; a fine |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | dapnom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dh₂pnóm | expense, investment |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂p- | to sacrifice; to lose |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂- | to share, divide |