Where does “incoherent” come from?
Incoherent comes from Middle French incohérent, from Latin incohaerens, combining the prefix in- (not) with cohaerens (sticking together), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European oyd-.
incoherent (English): Not coherent
Definitions
- Not coherent
Ancestry of “incoherent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | coherent | Unified; sticking together; making up a whole;... |
| 2 | Middle French | coherent | — |
| 3 | Latin | cohaerēns | uniting, cohering, adhering |
| 4 | Latin | cohaereō | to cling, cleave or stick cling (closely) together; to be united, cohere, adhere |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 6 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 7 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |