Where does “spoon excavator” come from?
spoon excavator (English) comes from English excavator, from English excavate, from Latin excavātus, from Latin excavō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
spoon excavator (English): A curette with hooklike ends used to remove soft...
Definitions
- A curette with hooklike ends used to remove soft...
Ancestry of “spoon excavator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | excavator | A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape... |
| 2 | English | excavate | To make a hole in ; to hollow; To remove part of ... |
| 3 | Latin | excavātus | — |
| 4 | Latin | excavō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 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 | — |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |