Where does “detoxify” come from?
I need to work through this etymology chain carefully. The chain given is: English tox | English toxicity | English toxic | Proto-Indo-European de | Latin -itas | Latin facio | Latin facio | Latin -itas However, this chain appears problematic. "Detoxify" would break down as "de-" + "toxify" (or "de-" + "toxic" + "-ify"). The chain provided doesn't clearly support "detoxify" - it seems to trace "toxicity" or "toxic" instead. Looking at what the chain actually supports: - toxic (English) comes from toxicity (English) - toxicity (English) contains -itas (Latin suffix) - -itas (Latin) relates to facio (Latin) - facio relates back to Proto-Indo-European de This chain is incoherent for the word "det
detoxify (English): To remove foreign and harmful substances from...
Definitions
- To remove foreign and harmful substances from...
Ancestry of “detoxify”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -ify | To produce verbs meaning "to make" |
| 2 | Middle English | -ifien | — |
| 3 | Old French | -ifier | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ifico | Enlarged form of of -ficō; dative masculine... |
| 5 | Latin | -fico | Forms factitive, causative, or other verbs from... |
| 6 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |