Where does “skimo” come from?
skimo (English) comes from English mountaineering, from English mountaineer, from English -eer, from Dutch -eren, from Middle Dutch -eren, from Middle French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō — he, she.
skimo (English): Ski mountaineering, especially competitive ski mountaineering
Definitions
- Ski mountaineering, especially competitive ski mountaineering
Ancestry of “skimo”, step by step
skimo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mountaineering
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mountaineering | The sport of climbing mountains |
| 2 | English | mountaineer | A person who climbs mountains for sport or... |
| 3 | English | -eer | Used to create an agent noun denoting someone... |
| 4 | Dutch | -eren | forms the plural of a limited group of nouns:... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | -eren | — |
| 6 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English ski
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ski | one of a pair of long flat runners designed for... |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | ski | a ski |
| 3 | Danish | ski | — |
| 4 | Norwegian Nynorsk | ski | a ski |
| 5 | Old Norse | skíð | stick of wood, snowshoe; split wood, wooden... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skīdą | piece of wood, billet, board |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱēy- | to shine; to shimmer; shadow; luster, gloss,... |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | skaidą | separation, distinction |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | skÁit- | to cut, part, spearate, divide; to cut, part,... |