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Where does “palaeomagnetically” come from?

palaeomagnetically (English) comes from English palaeomagnetic, from English magnetic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

palaeomagnetically (English): With reference to palaeomagnetism

Definitions

  1. With reference to palaeomagnetism

Ancestry of “palaeomagnetically”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpalaeomagneticOf or pertaining to palaeomagnetism
2EnglishmagneticOf, relating to, operating by, or caused by...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →