Where does “raveningly” come from?
raveningly (English) comes from English ravening, from English Raven, from Middle English raven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic hrabn, from Proto-Germanic hrabnaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱorh₂-, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer- — army.
raveningly (English): In a ravening manner
Definitions
- In a ravening manner
Ancestry of “raveningly”, step by step
raveningly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ravening
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ravening | Voracious and greedy; Subject to the voracity of... |
| 2 | English | Raven | for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s |
| 3 | Middle English | raven | to wander; to rave; talk like a madman |
| 4 | Old English | hræfn | raven |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | hrabn | raven |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hrabnaz | raven |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱorh₂- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |