Where does “gravastar” come from?
gravastar (English) comes from English gravitational, from English -ál, from English aldehyde, from German Aldehyd, from Latin alcohol, from Andalusian Arabic كُحُول, from Arabic كحل, from Arabic كُحْل — kohl, antimony paste.
gravastar (English): A proposed alternative to black holes that is...
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- A proposed alternative to black holes that is...
Ancestry of “gravastar”, step by step
gravastar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English gravitational
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | gravitational | Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or... |
| 2 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 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 | kohl, antimony paste |
via English star
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | star | Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless... |
| 2 | Middle English | sterre | star |
| 3 | Old English | steorra | star |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | sterrō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sternô | star |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂stḗr | star |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs- | to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth |
via English vacuum
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vacuum | A region of space that contains no matter; A... |
| 2 | Dutch | vacuüm | a vacuum |
| 3 | Latin | vacuum | accusative neuter singular of vacuus; an empty... |
| 4 | Latin | vacuus | empty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,... |
| 5 | Latin | -uus | forms adjectives on verbal stems |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-wos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |