Where does “resound” come from?
Resound comes from Middle English sounden, from Latin resonāre (re- "back" + sonāre "to sound"), ultimately from Latin sonus "sound."
resound (English): To echo or again sound; An echoing or...
Definitions
- To echo or again sound; An echoing or...
Ancestry of “resound”, step by step
resound traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English resoun
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | resoun | resound; reason |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | raisun | Alternative form of reson |
| 3 | Old French | reson | logic, logical reasoning |
| 4 | Latin | ratiō | reason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English Sound
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Sound | The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund |
| 2 | Middle English | sound | — |
| 3 | Old English | sund | swimming; sea, water |
| 4 | Old Norse | sund | swimming; strait, sound; swimming, sound |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sundą | swimming; sound, strait |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | swimmaną | to be unsteady; to swim; float |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | swem(bʰ)- | to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim |