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Where does “napalmlike” come from?

napalmlike (English) comes from English napalm, from English naphthenic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

napalmlike (English): Resembling or characteristic of napalm

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of napalm

Ancestry of “napalmlike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnapalmA highly flammable, viscous substance, designed...
2EnglishnaphthenicOf, pertaining to, or derived from a naphthene
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →