Where does “tracingly” come from?
tracingly (English) comes from English tracing, from Middle English tracyng, from Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, from Old French trac, from Middle Dutch treck, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan — he, she.
tracingly (English): So as to trace something
Definitions
- So as to trace something
Ancestry of “tracingly”, step by step
tracingly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English tracing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tracing | The reproduction of an image made by copying it... |
| 2 | Middle English | tracyng | A tracing or duplication |
| 3 | Middle English | tracen | To go along a set route; to follow an itinerary... |
| 4 | Old French | tracer | — |
| 5 | Old French | trac | track of horses, trail, trace; track; a track,... |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | treck | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | to drag |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |