Where does “unionid” come from?
unionid (English) comes from Translingual Unionidae, from Latin ūniō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
unionid (English): Any member of the family Unionidae of bivalves
Definitions
- Any member of the family Unionidae of bivalves
Ancestry of “unionid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Translingual | Unionidae | — |
| 2 | Latin | ūniō | — |
| 3 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 7 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |