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Where does “panickily” come from?

panickily (English) comes from English panicky, from English Panic, from English PAN, from English pantograph, from French pantographe, from French -graphe, from Latin -graphus, from Ancient Greek -γράφος — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...

panickily (English): In a panicky manner

Definitions

  1. In a panicky manner

Ancestry of “panickily”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpanickyIn a state of panic
2EnglishPanicPandean
3EnglishPANAcronym of primary account number; Acronym of...
4EnglishpantographA mechanical linkage based on parallelograms...
5Frenchpantographepantograph
6French-graphe-graph; -grapher
7Latin-graphus—
8Ancient Greek-γράφοςwriter, painter
9Ancient Greekγράφωto scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to...
10Proto-Hellenicgrəpʰōto scratch, cut or carve into; to draw ,...
11Proto-Indo-Europeangerbʰ-to carve
12Proto-Indo-Europeanger-to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
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