Where does “parafissural” come from?

parafissural (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.

parafissural (English): Across or through a fissure

Definitions

  1. Across or through a fissure

Ancestry of “parafissural”, step by step

parafissural traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Pará

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishParáA former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions
2PortugueseParáa state in the North Region of Brazil
3PortuguesePerapear
4Portugueseesperawait
5Portugueseesperarto wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate
6Old Portugueseasperar
7Old Spanishesperarto wait for, await
8Latinspērōto hope, expect
9Latinspeshope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension
10Proto-Italicspēshope
11Proto-Indo-Europeanspéh₁sprosperity, success
12Proto-Indo-Europeanspeh₁-to succeed, to prosper

via English fissural

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfissuralPertaining to a fissure or fissures
2EnglishfissureA crack or opening, as in a rock; A groove, deep...
3Middle Englishfissurefissure, rupture
4Old Frenchfissure
5Latinfissurafissure, cleft; nominative feminine singular of...
6Latinfindōto cleave, break up, separate, divide, split, part
7Proto-Italicfindōsplit, cleave
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeyd-to split
9Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰey-bee
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-Every word from Proto-Indo-European spéh₁sEvery word from Proto-Italic spēs