Where does “extracranial” come from?
Extracranial comes from English cranial combined with Latin extra, from Latin exter, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European h₁eǵʰs meaning outside or external.
extracranial (English): Not intracranial, but outside the cranium
Definitions
- Not intracranial, but outside the cranium
Ancestry of “extracranial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | cranial | Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull |
| 2 | English | -ál | — |
| 3 | English | aldehyde | Any of a large class of reactive organic... |
| 4 | German | Aldehyd | aldehyde |
| 5 | Latin | alcohol | kohl, collyrium, stibium; any other powder... |
| 6 | Andalusian Arabic | كُحُول | — |
| 7 | Arabic | كحل | antimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the... |
| 8 | Arabic | كُحْل | antimony; kohl, stibnite |
| 9 | Akkadian | guḫlum | — |
Words derived from “extracranial”