Where does “paraphysical” come from?
paraphysical (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.
paraphysical (English): Relating to paraphysics
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- Relating to paraphysics
Ancestry of “paraphysical”, step by step
paraphysical traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English physical
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | physical | "Of medicine."; "Of matter or nature."; "Of the... |
| 2 | Latin | physicalis | physics, natural science |
| 3 | Latin | physica | natural sciences; natural philosophy; physics;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | φυσικός | natural, produced or caused by nature, inborn,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | φύσις | origin, birth; nature, quality, property; later,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | φύω | To bring forth, produce, generate, cause to grow;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuHyéti | to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |