Where does “merit badging” come from?
merit badging (English) comes from English merit badge, from English merit, from Middle English merit, from Anglo-Norman merit, from Old French merite, from Latin meritum, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
merit badging (English): The act of pursuing merit badges
Definitions
- The act of pursuing merit badges
Ancestry of “merit badging”, step by step
merit badging traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English merit badge
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | merit badge | An award earned by youth members of the Boy... |
| 2 | English | merit | A claim to commendation or a reward; A mark or... |
| 3 | Middle English | merit | — |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | merit | — |
| 5 | Old French | merite | merit |
| 6 | Latin | meritum | merit, service, deserts; value, reward, benefit,... |
| 7 | Latin | meritus | earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,... |
| 8 | Latin | mereō | to deserve, merit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |
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;... |