Where does “overindustrious” come from?
overindustrious (English) comes from English industrious, from Middle French industrieux, from Latin industriosus, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō, from Proto-Indo-European strew- — sterile, infertile.
Ancestry of “overindustrious”, step by step
overindustrious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English industrious
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | industrious | Hard-working and persistent |
| 2 | Middle French | industrieux | — |
| 3 | Latin | industriosus | diligent, active, industrious |
| 4 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 5 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 6 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
via English over
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | over | Discontinued; ended or concluded; Thoroughly;... |
| 2 | Middle English | over | riverbank, seashore, brink |
| 3 | Old English | ōfer | riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | obar | over, above |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | uber | over; over, above |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |