Where does “petajoule” come from?
petajoule (English) comes from English joule, from English Joel, from French Judicaël, from Old Breton Iudicael, from Welsh cael, from English Kyle, from Scottish Gaelic caol, from Middle Irish cáel — to cut, part, spearate, divide; to cut, part,...
petajoule (English): An SI unit of energy, work, and heat equal to...
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- An SI unit of energy, work, and heat equal to...
Ancestry of “petajoule”, step by step
petajoule traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English joule
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | joule | In the International System of Units, the derived... |
| 2 | English | Joel | A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh |
| 3 | French | Judicaël | transferred from the surname |
| 4 | Old Breton | Iudicael | — |
| 5 | Welsh | cael | to get, receive, have; to get to, be allowed to,... |
| 6 | English | Kyle | A placename |
| 7 | Scottish Gaelic | caol | thin, narrow; strait, narrows, firth, kyle; the... |
| 8 | Middle Irish | cáel | narrow |
| 9 | Old Irish | coíl | thin, slender, narrow |
| 10 | Proto-Celtic | koilos | thin |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱēy- | to shine; to shimmer; shadow; luster, gloss,... |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | skaidą | separation, distinction |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | skÁit- | to cut, part, spearate, divide; to cut, part,... |
via English Peta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Peta | — |
| 2 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 3 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |