Where does “otherworldliness” come from?
otherworldliness (English) comes from English otherworldly, from English other, from English kin, from English fictionkin, from English fiction, from Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictio — shoe.
otherworldliness (English): The quality of being otherworldly
Definitions
- The quality of being otherworldly
Ancestry of “otherworldliness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | otherworldly | Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a... |
| 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 |