Where does “parafoveally” come from?
parafoveally (English) comes from English parafoveal, 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.
parafoveally (English): Using the perifovea
Ancestry of “parafoveally”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | parafoveal | Surrounding the perifovea |
| 2 | English | Pará | — |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 4 | Portuguese | Pera | — |
| 5 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 6 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 8 | Old Spanish | esperar | — |
| 9 | Latin | spērō | — |
| 10 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |