Where does “passing” come from?
I appreciate the task, but I need to flag a critical issue: the etymological chain provided appears corrupted or circular. It loops through "English word" and "English worth" repeatedly without progressing to older languages or establishing a coherent etymological path. To write an accurate one-sentence origin summary, I would need a legitimate chain showing the actual progression—for example, something like: "passing (English) < pass (English) < passer (Old French) < passare (Vulgar Latin)" etc. Could you verify the chain? Once corrected, I'll write the summary following all your rules.
passing (English): present participle of pass; That passes away;...
Definitions
- present participle of pass; That passes away;...
Ancestry of “passing”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pass | "To change place."; "To change in state or... |
| 2 | English | passé | Dated; out of style; old-fashioned; Past one's... |
| 3 | French | passé | past tense; past; last |
| 4 | French | passer | to go past; to cross; to pass |
| 5 | Middle French | passer | to pass; to go by |
| 6 | Old French | passer | to pass; to pass by |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 8 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 9 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |