Where does “maintopmast” come from?
maintopmast (English) comes from English topmast, from English Mast, from French masse, from Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
maintopmast (English): The topmast of the mainmast
Definitions
- The topmast of the mainmast
Ancestry of “maintopmast”, step by step
maintopmast traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English topmast
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | topmast | The highest mast in a fore-and-aft-rigged ship;... |
| 2 | English | Mast | — |
| 3 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 4 | Old French | mace | mace weapon |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 6 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |