Where does “underfed” come from?
Underfed comes from Middle English under- combined with fed, from Old English under- and Old English fed, tracing to Proto-Germanic under and Proto-Indo-European n̥dʰér and h₁en.
underfed (English): Inadequately fed; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- Inadequately fed; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “underfed”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Fed | The Federal Reserve Board or System |
| 2 | English | federation | Act of joining together into a single political... |
| 3 | French | Fédération | federation |
| 4 | Latin | foederatio | federation, treaty |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |