Where does “tannic” come from?
Tannic comes from French tannique, formed from French -ique (from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos) combined with Gaulish tanno- and Latin tannum.
tannic (English): Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from...
Definitions
- Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from...
Ancestry of “tannic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tannique | tannic |
| 2 | French | tan | pulped oak bark used in the tanning process |
| 3 | French | ta | your |
| 4 | Old French | ta | your |
| 5 | Latin | tua | inflection of tuus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 6 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 7 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 8 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 9 | Polish | tu | here |
| 10 | Polish | być | to be |
| 11 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 12 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 13 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵʰ- | to be able |