Where does “transfontanelle” come from?
transfontanelle (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.
transfontanelle (English): Transfontanellar
Definitions
- Transfontanellar
Ancestry of “transfontanelle”, step by step
transfontanelle 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 fontanelle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fontanelle | A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due... |
| 2 | French | fontanelle | fontanelle |
| 3 | Old French | fontenelle | any place where two bones fuse together;... |
| 4 | Old French | fontaine | fountain |
| 5 | Latin | fontāna | spring, fountain, source |
| 6 | Latin | fontānus | bearing a relation to the spring or source |
| 7 | Latin | fons | a spring, a fountain; fresh water, spring water;... |
| 8 | Latin | fontis | genitive singular of fōns |