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Where does “porcelainlike” come from?

porcelainlike (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.

porcelainlike (English): Resembling porcelain or some aspect of it

Definitions

  1. Resembling porcelain or some aspect of it

Ancestry of “porcelainlike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishporcelainA hard white translucent ceramic, originally made...
2Middle Frenchporcelainecowrie, wampum; china, chinaware
3Old FrenchpourcelaineCowrie, cockle, or similar univalve shell; The...
4Italianporcellanaporcelain, china; third-person singular present...
5Italianporcellafemale equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer
6Italianporcathe ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A...
7Latinporcasow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk
8Esperantoporkaporcine
9Esperantoporkopig
10Latinporcusa piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for...
11Proto-Italicporkospig
12Proto-Indo-Europeanpórḱospiglet
13Proto-Indo-Europeanperḱ-colored; motley; to open, rip up
14Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
15Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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