Where does “otherwhereness” come from?
otherwhereness (English) comes from English otherwhere, from English other, from English kin, from English fictionkin, from English fiction, from Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictio — shoe.
otherwhereness (English): The quality of being somewhere else
Definitions
- The quality of being somewhere else
Ancestry of “otherwhereness”, step by step
otherwhereness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English otherwhere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | otherwhere | Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to... |
| 2 | English | other | See "other" below; Second; Alien |
| 3 | English | kin | Race; family; breed; kind; Persons of the same... |
| 4 | English | fictionkin | An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind: a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc |
| 5 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 6 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 7 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 8 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |