Where does “novid” come from?
novid (English) comes from English covid, from English COVID-19, from Translingual COVID-19, from Translingual COVID, from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise — not, un-.
novid (English): A person who has never had COVID-19, or believes so because they were asymptomatic when infected
Definitions
- A person who has never had COVID-19, or believes so because they were asymptomatic when infected
Ancestry of “novid”, step by step
novid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English covid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | covid | A cubit |
| 2 | English | COVID-19 | COVID-19 disease |
| 3 | Translingual | COVID-19 | A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| 4 | Translingual | COVID | A coronavirus disease |
| 5 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 6 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 8 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 9 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 10 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 11 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 12 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
via English Nō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Nō | — |
| 2 | Middle English | no | no |
| 3 | Old English | nā | no |
| 4 | Old English | ne | not; or, and not; "ne... ne..." is used to mean "... |
| 5 | Old English | ealles | completely, wholly, entirely; totally,... |
| 6 | Old English | -es | possessive marker, indicating that an object... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -as | used in formation of adverbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |