Where does “salvaging” come from?
Salvaging comes from English salvage, from Catalan salvatge, from Latin salvus meaning "safe or whole," with the adjective suffix Latin -icus and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
salvaging (English): present participle of salvage; The act by which...
Definitions
- present participle of salvage; The act by which...
Ancestry of “salvaging”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | salvage | The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from... |
| 2 | Spanish | salvaje | wild, savage; savage, feral, uncivilized; savage |
| 3 | Old Occitan | salvatge | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | salvaticus | — |
| 5 | Latin | silvāticus | of the woods, sylvan |
| 6 | Latin | -aticus | Used to form adjectives indicating a relation to... |
| 7 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |