Where does “soar” come from?
Soar comes from Middle English soren, from Old French essorer meaning "to expose to air," from Vulgar Latin exaurare, combining Latin ex with a root from Ancient Greek αὔρα and ἀήρ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂weh₁- and h₂ews-.
soar (English): To fly high with little effort, like a bird; To...
Definitions
- To fly high with little effort, like a bird; To...
Ancestry of “soar”, step by step
soar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English soren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | soren | To soar; to rise in the air |
| 2 | Old French | essorer | to fly up, soar |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | exaurare | to rise into the air; to expose to air; to rise... |
| 4 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |