Where does “humanimal” come from?
humanimal (English) comes from English Human, from Middle English humayne, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic hemō.
humanimal (English): Between human beings and animals
Definitions
- Between human beings and animals
Ancestry of “humanimal”, step by step
humanimal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Human
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Human | The language supposedly spoken by humans |
| 2 | Middle English | humayne | human |
| 3 | Middle French | humain | human; human being; human |
| 4 | Old French | humain | — |
| 5 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 6 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 7 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |
via English animal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | animal | A multicellular organism that is usually mobile,... |
| 2 | French | animal | animal |
| 3 | Italian | animale | animal; beast |
| 4 | Spanish | animal | animal |
| 5 | Latin | animal | animal; living creature |
| 6 | Latin | animālis | animate, living |
| 7 | Latin | anima | soul, spirit, life; air, breeze; breath |
| 8 | Latin | animus | That life-giving aspect which animates: life... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | anamos | breath; spirit, soul, life force |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂enh₁mos | breath |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂enh₁- | to breathe |