Where does “pararescueman” come from?
pararescueman (English) comes from English rescue, from Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
pararescueman (English): A soldier who parachutes into hostile territory to rescue fellow soldiers
Definitions
- A soldier who parachutes into hostile territory to rescue fellow soldiers
Ancestry of “pararescueman”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rescue | To save from any violence, danger or evil; To... |
| 2 | Middle English | rescouen | — |
| 3 | Old French | rescoure | — |
| 4 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |