Where does “subhyoid” come from?

subhyoid (English) comes from English sub, from English substitute, from Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, from Latin substituo, from Latin statuo, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō.

subhyoid (English): Beneath the hyoid bone

Definitions

  1. Beneath the hyoid bone

Ancestry of “subhyoid”, step by step

subhyoid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sub

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsubA submarine; A submarine sandwich: a sandwich...
2EnglishsubstituteTo use in place of something else, with the same...
3Middle Englishsubstituten
4Latinsubstitutussubstituted
5LatinsubstituoI place next to, under, or instead of; I...
6LatinstatuoI set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I...
7Latinstātusfixed, set, having been set
8Latinstōto stand
9Proto-Italicstaēōstand
10Proto-Indo-Europeansth₂éh₁yetito stand
11Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-

via English hyoid

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhyoidShaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon;...
2Frenchhyoïdehyoid
3LatinhyoīdēsU-shaped; hyoid
4Ancient Greekῡ̔οειδήςshaped like the letter υ upsilon
5Ancient Greek-ειδήςlike, connected to, from the nature of, full of;...
6Ancient Greek-ήςadjective suffix
7Proto-Indo-European-ēsPrimarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds
8Proto-Indo-European-ess
9Proto-Indo-European-osCreates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
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