Where does “librarying” come from?
librarying (English) comes from English library, from Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman French librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium, from Latin librarius, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber — shoe.
librarying (English): The accumulation of a library of material
Definitions
- The accumulation of a library of material
Ancestry of “librarying”, step by step
librarying traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English library
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | library | An institution which holds books and/or other... |
| 2 | Middle English | librarie | library, reading room; bookshelf, bookcase;... |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman French | librarie | — |
| 4 | Old French | librairie | library |
| 5 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 6 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 7 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 8 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 9 | French | lober | to lob |
| 10 | French | lob | lob |
| 11 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 12 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 13 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 14 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 15 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 16 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 17 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 18 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 19 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
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;... |