Where does “moonrise” come from?
I can't write this etymology with confidence. The chain appears corrupted or incorrectly ordered—it mixes unrelated roots (Latin ridere "to laugh," sapere "to taste/know," and riso "rice") that don't plausibly lead to "moonrise."
Could you verify: Is this the correct chain for "moonrise"? A legitimate etymology should show how component parts (moon + rise) developed, with each step linguistically sound.
moonrise (English): The time of day or night when the moon begins to...
Definitions
- The time of day or night when the moon begins to...
Ancestry of “moonrise”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Moon | — |
| 2 | Middle English | Mone | — |
| 3 | Old English | mān | bad, criminal, false; shameful act; crime;... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | महादेव | — |
| 5 | Sanskrit | महा | combining form of महत्; buffalo; great, large,... |
| 6 | Sanskrit | महायान | — |
| 7 | Sanskrit | यान | carriage, vehicle, mode of transport; moving,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | yáHnam | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | yáHnam | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yéh₂-nom | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₂- | to go; to go in, enter; to ride, to travel |