Where does “untremblingly” come from?
untremblingly (English) comes from English tremblingly, from English trembling, from English tremble, from Old French trambler, from Vulgar Latin tremulare, from Latin tremulus, from Latin tremō, from Proto-Italic tremō — boundary, end.
untremblingly (English): Without trembling; courageously
Definitions
- Without trembling; courageously
Ancestry of “untremblingly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tremblingly | In a trembling manner |
| 2 | English | trembling | a tremble; present participle of tremble |
| 3 | English | tremble | To shake, quiver, or vibrate; To fear; to be... |
| 4 | Old French | trambler | to tremble |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tremulare | present active infinitive of tremulō |
| 6 | Latin | tremulus | shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremulous |
| 7 | Latin | tremō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | tremō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | trem- | to tremble |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 11 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 12 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |