Where does “meatlessness” come from?
meatlessness (English) comes from English meatless, from English meat, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną — to bake, to roast, to fry.
meatlessness (English): Absence of, or abstention from, meat;...
Definitions
- Absence of, or abstention from, meat;...
Ancestry of “meatlessness”, step by step
meatlessness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English meatless
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | meatless | Without meat |
| 2 | English | meat | The flesh of an animal used as food; A type of... |
| 3 | Middle English | mete | Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is... |
| 4 | Middle English | bake mete | Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry... |
| 5 | Middle English | baken | To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of... |
| 6 | Old English | bacan | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | bakan | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |
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 |