Where does “humanzee” come from?
humanzee (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.
humanzee (English): A hypothetical hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee
Definitions
- A hypothetical hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee
Ancestry of “humanzee”, step by step
humanzee 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 chimpanzee
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chimpanzee | A species of great ape in the genus "Pan", native... |
| 2 | French | chimpanzé | chimpanzee |