Where does “disomy” come from?

disomy (English) comes from English disome, from English some, from Middle English som, from Old English sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic sumaz, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.

disomy (English): The normal state of a diploid eukaryotic cell or...

Definitions

  1. The normal state of a diploid eukaryotic cell or...

Ancestry of “disomy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdisomeA pair of homologous chromosomes
2EnglishsomeA certain number, at least two; An indefinite...
3Middle Englishsomsome
4Old Englishsumsome
5Proto-West Germanic*sumsome
6Proto-Germanicsumazsome (one), a certain (one)
7Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one

Words derived from “disomy”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →Every word from Proto-Germanic sumaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sum →