Where does “porcelainberry” come from?
porcelainberry (English) comes from English porcelain, from Middle French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, from Italian porcella, from Italian porca, from Latin porca, from Esperanto porka — passed , crossed.
porcelainberry (English): Ampelopsis glandulosa, a vine native to East Asia but invasive in the Eastern US, which produces blue or purple berries
Definitions
- Ampelopsis glandulosa, a vine native to East Asia but invasive in the Eastern US, which produces blue or purple berries
Ancestry of “porcelainberry”, step by step
porcelainberry traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English porcelain
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | porcelain | A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made... |
| 2 | Middle French | porcelaine | cowrie, wampum; china, chinaware |
| 3 | Old French | pourcelaine | Cowrie, cockle, or similar univalve shell; The... |
| 4 | Italian | porcellana | porcelain, china; third-person singular present... |
| 5 | Italian | porcella | female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer |
| 6 | Italian | porca | the ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A... |
| 7 | Latin | porca | sow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk |
| 8 | Esperanto | porka | porcine |
| 9 | Esperanto | porko | pig |
| 10 | Latin | porcus | a piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | porkos | pig |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pórḱos | piglet |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | perḱ- | colored; motley; to open, rip up |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |