Where does “sustainment” come from?
Sustainment comes from Middle English -ment, Old French -ment, and Latin -mentum combined with Latin teneo meaning to hold, prefixed with Latin sub meaning under.
sustainment (English): The act of sustaining something
Definitions
- The act of sustaining something
Ancestry of “sustainment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | sustain | To maintain, or keep in existence; To provide for... |
| 2 | Middle English | susteinen | — |
| 3 | Old French | sustenir | to hold up; to support; to support; to sustain |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | sustenire | — |
| 5 | Latin | sustineo | I hold up or upright, uphold, keep up, bear up,... |
| 6 | Latin | sub- | sub- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |