Where does “fauxstalgia” come from?
fauxstalgia (English) comes from English faux, from French faux, from Middle French faux, from Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, from Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European dʰelg- — a cutting tool; to stick; needle, pin.
fauxstalgia (English): for something one has not experienced or which never existed
Definitions
- for something one has not experienced or which never existed
Ancestry of “fauxstalgia”, step by step
fauxstalgia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English faux
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | faux | fake or artificial |
| 2 | French | faux | false; untrue; false; not real; badly;... |
| 3 | Middle French | faux | Alternative form of faulx |
| 4 | Middle French | faulx | false; untrue; false; pretentious; scythe |
| 5 | Old French | fauz | scythe |
| 6 | Latin | falx | sickle, scythe; a hook used to pull down walls |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰelg- | a cutting tool; to stick; needle, pin |
via English nostalgia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | nostalgia | A longing for home or familiar surroundings;... |
| 2 | New Latin | nostalgia | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | νόστος | the act of reaching a place: journey, arrival;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -τος | Creates perfective passive verbal adjectives;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |