Where does “hot” come from?
Hot comes from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic hataz, from Proto-Indo-European kadʰ-, meaning to heat or make hot.
hot (English): Having a high temperature; Causing the air to be...
Definitions
- Having a high temperature; Causing the air to be...
Ancestry of “hot”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | hot | hot |
| 2 | Old English | hāt | hot, fervent, fervid, fierce |
| 3 | Old English | hātan | to promise; to command, promise; to command, call... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -an | Added to an adjective to create an adverb; Added... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -á | Used to form the third-person singular indicative... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -i | — |