Where does “warm-blooded” come from?

warm-blooded (English) comes from English warm, from German warm, from Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-West Germanic warm, from Proto-Germanic warmaz, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰer-, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰe-gʷʰór-e ~ gʷʰe-gʷʰr-ḗr.

warm-blooded (English): maintaining a relatively constant and warm body...

Definitions

  1. maintaining a relatively constant and warm body...

Ancestry of “warm-blooded”, step by step

warm-blooded traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English warm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwarmHaving a temperature slightly higher than usual,...
2Germanwarmwarm; mildly hot; warm; keeping the wearer warm;...
3Middle High Germanwarm—
4Old High Germanwarmwarm
5Proto-West Germanicwarmwarm
6Proto-Germanicwarmazwarm
7Proto-Indo-Europeangʷʰer-warm, hot
8Proto-Indo-Europeangʷʰe-gʷʰór-e ~ gʷʰe-gʷʰr-ḗr—

via English blooded

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbloodedExperienced; Descended from; bloody, bleeding
2English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
3Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
4Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “warm-blooded”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰe-gʷʰór-e ~ gʷʰe-gʷʰr-ḗr →