Where does “eventuate” come from?
Eventuate derives from the English verb suffix -ate, attached to a stem from Latin -tus (past participle), prefixed with Latin ex- (out), from Latin ex (out), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʷem- (to go).
eventuate (English): To have a given result; to turn out ; to result...
Definitions
- To have a given result; to turn out ; to result...
Ancestry of “eventuate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | ēventus | — |
| 2 | Latin | ēveniō | — |
| 3 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 4 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 5 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |