Where does “lamastery” come from?
lamastery (English) comes from English lamasery, from French lamaserie, from French lama, from Spanish llama, from Latin flamma, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō — to smell.
Ancestry of “lamastery”, step by step
lamastery traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English lamasery
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | lamasery | A monastery for lamas |
| 2 | French | lamaserie | lamasery |
| 3 | French | lama | llama; lama; third-person singular past historic... |
| 4 | Spanish | llama | flame; llama |
| 5 | Latin | flamma | flame, fire |
| 6 | Latin | flāgrāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |
via English monastery
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | monastery | Building for housing monks or others who have... |
| 2 | Old French | monastere | — |
| 3 | Latin | monastērium | monastery |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μοναστήριον | solitary dwelling, hermit's cell; monastery |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μόνος | alone, forsaken, solitary; only; unique |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | σπέρμα | seed; semen, sperm; seed-time, sowing |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *spérmə | — |