Where does “filmmaking” come from?
Filmmaking derives from English film and the English suffix -ing, which comes from Middle English -ing, Old English -ing, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European mag-, meaning to knead or shape.
filmmaking (English): The activity of preparing edited video works,...
Definitions
- The activity of preparing edited video works,...
Ancestry of “filmmaking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | making | The act of forming, causing, or constituting;... |
| 2 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 3 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 4 | Old English | -tūn | — |
| 5 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 8 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 9 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |