Where does “nonionic” come from?
Nonionic derives from English ionic, which comes from English ion, which comes from English anion, which comes from Latin novem meaning nine, which comes from Proto-Indo-European -kos and English nine, which comes from Proto-Indo-European -kos and Proto-Indo-European new-.
nonionic (English): Not ionic; anionic
Ancestry of “nonionic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Ionic | of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians; of an... |
| 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 |