Where does “deoxyguanine” come from?
deoxyguanine (English) comes from English guanine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.
deoxyguanine (English): Any guanine nucleotide that contains deoxyribose
Definitions
- Any guanine nucleotide that contains deoxyribose
Ancestry of “deoxyguanine”, step by step
deoxyguanine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English guanine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | guanine | A substance first obtained from guano; it is a... |
| 2 | English | -ine | Of or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;... |
| 3 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 4 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 5 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 6 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 7 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via English deoxy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deoxy | Describing any compound formally derived from... |
| 2 | English | de- | reversal, undoing, removing; Intensifying; from,... |
| 3 | Latin | dē- | of; from |
| 4 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 5 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 6 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |