Where does “otherworldish” come from?
otherworldish (English) comes from English Otherworld, from English other, from English kin, from English fictionkin, from English fiction, from Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictio — shoe.
otherworldish (English): otherworldly
Definitions
- otherworldly
Ancestry of “otherworldish”, step by step
otherworldish traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Otherworld
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Otherworld | The other realms of existence beyond the world of... |
| 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 ish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ish | Pronunciation spelling of is; somewhat,... |
| 2 | English | -ish | Typical of, similar to, being like; Somewhat,... |
| 3 | Middle English | -ish | Alternative form of -yssh |
| 4 | Old English | -isċ | -ish |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -isk | Creates adjectives from nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -iskaz | Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -iskos | Characteristic of, typical of, pertaining to |