Where does “paragrammatically” come from?
paragrammatically (English) comes from English paragrammatical, 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.
paragrammatically (English): With the use of anomalous grammar
Definitions
- With the use of anomalous grammar
Ancestry of “paragrammatically”, step by step
paragrammatically traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English paragrammatical
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | paragrammatical | Relating to, or employing, anomalous grammar |
| 2 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 4 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 5 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 6 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 8 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 9 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 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 |