Where does “intimateness” come from?
intimateness (English) comes from English intimate, from Latin intimatus, from Latin intimō, from Latin intimus, from Latin intus, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
intimateness (English): Quality of being intimate
Definitions
- Quality of being intimate
Ancestry of “intimateness”, step by step
intimateness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English intimate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | intimate | Closely acquainted; familiar; Of or involved in a... |
| 2 | Latin | intimatus | |
| 3 | Latin | intimō | to tell, relate, narrate, recount, describe, intimate |
| 4 | Latin | intimus | inmost; profound; most or very secret or intimate |
| 5 | Latin | intus | within, inside; at home |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |