Where does “excretin” come from?
excretin (English) comes from English excrete, from Latin excretum, from Latin excerno, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — resin.
excretin (English): A non-nitrogenous crystalline body present in...
Definitions
- A non-nitrogenous crystalline body present in...
Ancestry of “excretin”, step by step
excretin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English excrete
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | excrete | To discharge material from a cell, body or... |
| 2 | Latin | excretum | accusative supine of excernō |
| 3 | Latin | excerno | I sift out, separate; I keep apart, keep away; I... |
| 4 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 5 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |