Where does “self-existent” come from?
self-existent (English) comes from English existent, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
self-existent (English): Existing without having been created; Existing...
Definitions
- Existing without having been created; Existing...
Ancestry of “self-existent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | existent | existing; having life or being, current;... |
| 2 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 3 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 4 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |