Where does “e-benefits” come from?
e-benefits (English) comes from English benefits, from English benefit, from Middle English benefytt, from Middle English benfet, from Anglo-Norman benfet, from Old French bienfet, from Old French bienfaire, from Old French bien — to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be...
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Ancestry of “e-benefits”, step by step
e-benefits traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English benefits
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | benefits | plural of benefit; Third-person singular simple... |
| 2 | English | benefit | An advantage; help or aid from something; A... |
| 3 | Middle English | benefytt | — |
| 4 | Middle English | benfet | — |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | benfet | well-done |
| 6 | Old French | bienfet | — |
| 7 | Old French | bienfaire | to do good, do well |
| 8 | Old French | bien | well; indeed; possession; object of value |
| 9 | Latin | bene | well; properly, exactly; agreeably, favorably |
| 10 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 11 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | — |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |