Where does “parahaplogroup” come from?

parahaplogroup (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.

parahaplogroup (English): A paraphyletic haplogroup

Definitions

  1. A paraphyletic haplogroup

Ancestry of “parahaplogroup”, step by step

parahaplogroup 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 haplogroup

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhaplogroupA group of closely related haplotypes
2EnglishGroupA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another
3Frenchgroupegroup
4Italiangruppogroup, cluster, party, team, covey; pack; peloton
5Vulgar Latincruppo
6Renaissance Latingrupus
7Proto-Germanickruppaza body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;...
8Proto-Indo-Europeangrewb-to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanger-to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-Every word from Proto-Indo-European spéh₁sEvery word from Proto-Italic spēs