Where does “squishably” come from?
squishably (English) comes from English squishable, from English squish, from English squash, from Middle English squachen, from Old French esquacher, from Vulgar Latin excoactiare, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
squishably (English): In a squishable manner
Definitions
- In a squishable manner
Ancestry of “squishably”, step by step
squishably traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English squishable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | squishable | Able to be squished or compressed |
| 2 | English | squish | The sound or action of something, especially... |
| 3 | English | squash | A sport played in a walled court with a soft... |
| 4 | Middle English | squachen | — |
| 5 | Old French | esquacher | — |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | excoactiare | — |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |