Where does “nondeterministic” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice the chain provided doesn't actually support "nondeterministic" - it contains fragments that don't form a coherent etymological path to this word.
The chain shows: "English deterministic | English determinist | French -ique | Latin novem | Proto-Indo-European -kos | English nine | Proto-Indo-European -kos | Proto-Indo-European new-"
This appears to be corrupted or misaligned data. It jumps between unrelated roots (novem = nine, new-) and doesn't trace "nondeterministic" through "deterministic" properly, nor does it explain the "non-" prefix.
I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology following your rules because the chain as given doesn't support the headword. I would need a correct chain showing:
- nondeterministic ← non- + determin
nondeterministic (English): Exhibiting nondeterminism; involving choices...
Definitions
- Exhibiting nondeterminism; involving choices...
Ancestry of “nondeterministic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | deterministic | Of, or relating to determinism; Having at most... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 11 | Latin | în | — |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “nondeterministic”