Where does “insulin” come from?

Insulin comes from Latin in meaning "in" plus Latin -sūla meaning "island," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European seh₂l- meaning "to bind or connect."

insulin (English): A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate...

Definitions

  1. A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate...

Ancestry of “insulin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinĪnsula
2Proto-Italicenselā

Words derived from “insulin

Every word from Proto-Italic enselā