Where does “laxing” come from?
laxing (English) comes from English lax, from Middle English lax, from Old English leax, from Proto-West Germanic lahs, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.
laxing (English): The process whereby a tense vowel becomes lax
Definitions
- The process whereby a tense vowel becomes lax
Ancestry of “laxing”, step by step
laxing traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English lax
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | lax | A salmon; Lenient and allowing for deviation; not... |
| 2 | Middle English | lax | salmon |
| 3 | Old English | leax | a salmon |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | lahs | salmon |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | lahsaz | salmon |
| 6 | Chinese | 拉薩 | — |
| 7 | Tibetan | ལྷ་ས | Lhasa |
| 8 | Old Tibetan | ར་ས | — |
via English ing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ing | A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river;... |
| 2 | Middle English | ing | — |
| 3 | Old English | ing | meadow, water meadow, ing |
| 4 | Old Norse | eng | meadow |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | angijō | A low lying meadow in a valley or near a river |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énkos | curve, bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |