Where does “indanol” come from?

indanol (English) comes from English ol, from Japanese OL, from Japanese オフィスレディー, from Japanese オフィス, from English Office, from Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium — obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...

indanol (English): Either of two isomeric secondary alcohols derived...

Definitions

  1. Either of two isomeric secondary alcohols derived...

Ancestry of “indanol”, step by step

indanol traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English ol

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisholNonstandard form of old
2JapaneseOL
3Japaneseオフィスレディーan "office lady"
4Japaneseオフィスoffice (building or room)
5EnglishOfficeA ceremonial duty or service, particularly
6Middle EnglishofficeThe state of being employed or having a work or...
7Old Frenchofficeoffice; service
8Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
9Latinopificiumwork
10LatinopifexSomeone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan
11LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
12Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
13Latinopscen
14Latinob-towards; against
15Latinobolusobolus (Greek coin)
16Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...

via English indane

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishindaneA bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene...
2EnglishindigoA purplish-blue colour; An indigo-colored dye...
3DutchindigoThe colour indigo; indigo-coloured
4Latinindicumgenitive plural of index; inflection of...
5LatinIndicusof India
6Ancient GreekἰνδικόςIndian, Indic
7Ancient GreekἸνδία
8Ancient GreekἸνδόςan inhabitant of India or the Indian...
9Old Persian𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁India; people living beyond the Indus
10Sanskritसिन्धुa river, stream; flood, waters; ocean, sea
11Proto-Indo-Aryansíndʰuṣriver, ocean; flow
12Proto-Indo-Iraniansíndʰušriver, stream
13Sanskritसिन्धु॑

Words derived from “indanol

Every word from Ancient Greek ὀβολός