Where does “peninsula” come from?
Peninsula comes from Latin paeninsula, a compound of Latin in and Latin insula, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European seh₂l- meaning salt or salt water.
peninsula (English): A piece of land projecting into water from a...
Definitions
- A piece of land projecting into water from a...
Ancestry of “peninsula”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | paenīnsula | peninsula |
| 2 | Latin | paene | almost, nearly; scarcely, hardly, barely |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |