Where does “disemvowelment” come from?
disemvowelment (English) comes from English disembowelment, from English disembowel, from English embowel, from English bowel, from Middle French bouel, from Old French boiel, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
disemvowelment (English): The act of disemvoweling
Definitions
- The act of disemvoweling
Ancestry of “disemvowelment”, step by step
disemvowelment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English disembowelment
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | disembowelment | The act of disemboweling |
| 2 | English | disembowel | To take or let out the bowels or interior parts... |
| 3 | English | embowel | To enclose or bury; To remove the bowels;... |
| 4 | English | bowel | A part or division of the intestines, usually the... |
| 5 | Middle French | bouel | — |
| 6 | Old French | boiel | bowel |
| 7 | Latin | botellus | a small sausage |
| 8 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English vowel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vowel | A sound produced by the vocal cords with... |
| 2 | Old French | vouel | Alternative form of voyeul |
| 3 | Old French | voyeul | vowel |
| 4 | Latin | vōcālis | uttering a voice, having a voice; speaking, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, melodious; vocal |
| 5 | Latin | vōx | voice |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | wōks | voice |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wṓkʷs | voice, speech |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |