Where does โe-shoppingโ come from?
e-shopping (English) comes from English E, from Old English E, from Latin E, from Etruscan ๐, from Ancient Greek ฮต, from Phoenician ๐ค, from Egyptian ๐ .
e-shopping (English): Internet shopping; purchasing from e-shops
Definitions
- Internet shopping; purchasing from e-shops
Ancestry of โe-shoppingโ, step by step
e-shopping traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | โ |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | ๐ | โ |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ฮต | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was ฮตแผถ, later แผ ฯฮนฮปฯฮฝ, and presently ฮญฯฮนฮปฮฟฮฝ. 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 ฮด and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | ๐ค | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | ๐ | โ |