Where does “prehominid” come from?
prehominid (English) comes from English hominid, from Translingual Hominidae, from Translingual Homo, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic hemō, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European dʰéǵʰōm.
prehominid (English): Any evolutionary ancestor of the hominids
Definitions
- Any evolutionary ancestor of the hominids
Ancestry of “prehominid”, step by step
prehominid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English hominid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hominid | Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae.... |
| 2 | Translingual | Hominidae | family |
| 3 | Translingual | Homo | human; h; taxonomic genus within the family... |
| 4 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 5 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |
via English pre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pre | Before; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To... |
| 2 | Latin | prae | before; in front; in front of |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | prai | before; in front of |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | preh₂- | before, in front |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |