Where does “experiential” come from?
Experiential comes from Latin experientia, meaning "trial or experiment," derived from Latin experior, "to try," from Latin ex-, "out," combined with Proto-Indo-European per-, "to attempt."
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Ancestry of “experiential”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | experiență | experience |
| 2 | French | expérience | experiment, trial, test; experience, the totality... |
| 3 | Latin | experientia | a trial, proof, experiment; experimental... |
| 4 | Latin | experiens | testing, trying, experiencing |
| 5 | Latin | experior | I attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I... |
| 6 | Latin | pariō | — |
| 7 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
Words derived from “experiential”