Where does “self-rescuer” come from?
self-rescuer (English) comes from English rescuer, from English rescue, from Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
self-rescuer (English): A self-contained device to generate oxygen for...
Definitions
- A self-contained device to generate oxygen for...
Ancestry of “self-rescuer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | rescuer | A person who rescues someone or something |
| 2 | English | rescue | To save from any violence, danger or evil; To... |
| 3 | Middle English | rescouen | — |
| 4 | Old French | rescoure | — |
| 5 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |