Where does “nonexisting” come from?
nonexisting (English) comes from English existing, from English exist, from French exister, from Spanish existir, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
nonexisting (English): nonexistent
Definitions
- nonexistent
Ancestry of “nonexisting”, step by step
nonexisting traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English existing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | existing | present participle of exist; That exists, or has... |
| 2 | English | exist | to be; have existence; have being or reality |
| 3 | French | exister | to exist |
| 4 | Spanish | existir | to exist |
| 5 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 6 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |