Where does “tracing” come from?
Tracing comes from Middle English tracyng, formed with the Middle English suffix -ing from Old English -ing and Old English -ung, ultimately deriving from Latin trahere meaning "to pull or drag."
tracing (English): The reproduction of an image made by copying it...
Definitions
- The reproduction of an image made by copying it...
Ancestry of “tracing”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | tracyng | A tracing or duplication |
| 2 | Middle English | tracen | To go along a set route; to follow an itinerary... |
| 3 | Old French | tracer | — |
| 4 | Old French | trac | track of horses, trail, trace; track; a track,... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | treck | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |