Where does “sublayer” come from?
Sublayer comes from English layer, from English lay, from Proto-Italic supo, from Latin laicus meaning "of the people," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱel- meaning "to lie down."
sublayer (English): A layer underneath another; A subunit of a layer;...
Definitions
- A layer underneath another; A subunit of a layer;...
Ancestry of “sublayer”, step by step
sublayer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English layer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | layer | A single thickness of some material covering a... |
| 2 | English | lay | To place down in a position of rest, or in a... |
| 3 | English | Lee | for someone who lived near a meadow (the Anglo-Saxon for meadow being ley or leag) |
| 4 | Irish | Laoi | lay, song |
| 5 | Middle Irish | láed | — |
| 6 | English | loid | A lock-picking tool made from a piece of... |
| 7 | English | celluloid | Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from... |
| 8 | English | cellulose | A complex carbohydrate that forms the main... |
| 9 | French | cellulose | cellulose |
| 10 | French | cellule | cell; table cell |
| 11 | Latin | cellula | small room, especially that of a slave; humble... |
| 12 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English sub
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sub | A submarine; A submarine sandwich: a sandwich... |
| 2 | English | substitute | To use in place of something else, with the same... |
| 3 | Middle English | substituten | — |
| 4 | Latin | substitutus | substituted |
| 5 | Latin | substituo | I place next to, under, or instead of; I... |
| 6 | Latin | statuo | I set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I... |
| 7 | Latin | stātus | fixed, set, having been set |
| 8 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |