Where does “sealant” come from?
Sealant derives from English seal, from Italian -ente, from Latin -ens, from Latin sigillum, from Latin signum meaning mark or sign, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneh₃-.
sealant (English): Any material used to seal a surface so as to...
Definitions
- Any material used to seal a surface so as to...
Ancestry of “sealant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ant | The agent noun derived from verb; An adjective... |
| 2 | Middle English | -ant | — |
| 3 | Old English | -ende | equivalent of English -ing; suffix for present... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *-andī | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -andz | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 7 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 8 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 9 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 10 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 11 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | — |
| 12 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |