Where does “fat-shame” come from?
fat-shame (English) comes from English shame, from Middle English schamen, from Old English sċamian, from Proto-West Germanic skamēn, from Proto-Germanic skamāną, from Proto-Germanic -āną, from Proto-Germanic -ajaną, from Proto-Indo-European -oyéti — he, she.
fat-shame (English): To deride or criticise someone's obesity
Definitions
- To deride or criticise someone's obesity
Ancestry of “fat-shame”, step by step
fat-shame traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English shame
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | shame | Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to... |
| 2 | Middle English | schamen | To be ashamed; to feel shame or regret |
| 3 | Old English | sċamian | to be ashamed or embarrassed (+genitive of cause) (often impersonal with dative or accusative subject) |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | skamēn | to be ashamed |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | skamāną | to be ashamed |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -āną | Creates factitive verbs from adjectives, later... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -ajaną | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -oyéti | Creates factitive verbs from adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English fat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fat | Carrying more fat than usual on one's body;... |
| 2 | French | fat | conceited |
| 3 | Old Occitan | fat | — |
| 4 | Latin | fatuus | foolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,... |
| 5 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 6 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |