Where does “inexhalable” come from?
inexhalable (English) comes from English exhalable, from English exhale, from Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
inexhalable (English): Incapable of being exhaled
Definitions
- Incapable of being exhaled
Ancestry of “inexhalable”, step by step
inexhalable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English exhalable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | exhalable | Capable of being exhaled or evaporated |
| 2 | English | exhale | To expel air from the lungs through the nose or... |
| 3 | Middle French | exhaler | — |
| 4 | Latin | exhalare | present active infinitive of exhālō;... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |