Where does “e-vehicle” come from?
e-vehicle (English) comes from English vehicle, from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum, from Latin vehō, from Proto-Italic weɣō, from Proto-Indo-European wéǵʰeti, from Proto-Indo-European weǵʰ- — to bring; to transport.
Ancestry of “e-vehicle”, step by step
e-vehicle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English vehicle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vehicle | A conveyance; a device for carrying or... |
| 2 | French | véhicule | vehicle; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | vehiculum | A means of transport; vehicle, conveyance,... |
| 4 | Latin | vehō | to carry, bear, convey, transport |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | weɣō | to carry, convey |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wéǵʰeti | to be transporting |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵʰ- | to bring; to transport |
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 | — |