Where does “puissantly” come from?
puissantly (English) comes from English puissant, from Middle English puissaunt, from Old French puissant, from Old French pooir, from Latin posso, from Finnish possu, from Finnish porsas, from Proto-Finnic porcas — passed , crossed.
puissantly (English): In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great...
Definitions
- In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great...
Ancestry of “puissantly”, step by step
puissantly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English puissant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | puissant | Powerful, mighty, having authority |
| 2 | Middle English | puissaunt | powerful, mighty, puissant |
| 3 | Old French | puissant | powerful; mighty |
| 4 | Old French | pooir | can; to be able to; power; ability; capability |
| 5 | Latin | posso | to be able |
| 6 | Finnish | possu | piggy, pig, piglet; a slovenly person; pork |
| 7 | Finnish | porsas | A piglet; Pork; A pig in the sense of messy,... |
| 8 | Proto-Finnic | porcas | piglet |
| 9 | Romanian | porc | pig (mammal of genus Sus), hog, swine |
| 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 |