Where does “transalveolar” come from?
transalveolar (English) comes from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
transalveolar (English): Across or through an alveolus
Definitions
- Across or through an alveolus
Ancestry of “transalveolar”, step by step
transalveolar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 2 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 3 | English | gender | kind |
| 4 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 5 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via English alveolar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | alveolar | Of or relating to an alveolus; Relating to the... |
| 2 | English | alveolus | A small cavity or pit; An anatomical structure... |
| 3 | Latin | alveolus | small hollow or cavity; tray, trough, basin;... |
| 4 | Latin | -olus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming diminutives";... |
| 5 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |