Where does “transbay” come from?

transbay (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.

transbay (English): Crossing the San Francisco Bay

Definitions

  1. Crossing the San Francisco Bay

Ancestry of “transbay”, step by step

transbay traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English trans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
2EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
3Englishgenderkind
4Middle Englishgender
5Middle Frenchgendre
6Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
7Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English Bay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishBayA body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline
2Frenchbaieberry; bay; feminine singular of bai
3Frenchbaibay
4Old Frenchbaibay-colored
5Latinbadiusreddish brown, chestnut colored, bay
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbodyosyellow
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-