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Where does “parablastic” come from?

parablastic (English) comes from English parablast, from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar — to succeed, to prosper.

parablastic (English): Of or pertaining to the parablast

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the parablast

Ancestry of “parablastic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishparablastA portion of the mesoblast of the developing...
2EnglishPará—
3PortugueseParáa state in the North Region of Brazil
4PortuguesePera—
5Portugueseesperawait
6Portugueseesperarto wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate
7Old Portugueseasperar—
8Old Spanishesperar—
9Latinspērō—
10Latinspeshope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension
11Proto-Italicspēshope
12Proto-Indo-Europeanspéh₁sprosperity, success
13Proto-Indo-Europeanspeh₁-to succeed, to prosper
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