Where does “parahypnosis” come from?

parahypnosis (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.

parahypnosis (English): Any of various forms of disordered sleep

Definitions

  1. Any of various forms of disordered sleep

Ancestry of “parahypnosis”, step by step

parahypnosis 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 hypnosis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhypnosisA trancelike state, artificially induced, in...
2Ancient Greekὕπνωσις
3Ancient Greekὑπνόωto be drowsy; I put to sleep
4Ancient Greek-όωAdded to a noun or adjective to make a verb with...
5Proto-Indo-European-oyétiCreates factitive verbs from adjectives
6Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
8Chichewaiyehe, she
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-Every word from Proto-Indo-European spéh₁sEvery word from Proto-Italic spēs