Where does “Toile d'araignée mondiale” come from?
Toile d'araignée mondiale (French) comes from English World Wide Web, from English worldwide, from English World, from Middle English world, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic weraldi, from Proto-Germanic weraldiz, from Proto-Germanic weraz — to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute.
Toile d'araignée mondiale (French): the World Wide Web
Definitions
- the World Wide Web
Ancestry of “Toile d'araignée mondiale”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | World Wide Web | Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version |
| 2 | English | worldwide | Spanning the world; global; Throughout the world |
| 3 | English | World | The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds |
| 4 | Middle English | world | The world, the planet; A dimension, realm, or... |
| 5 | Old English | weorold | world |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | weraldi | world |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | weraldiz | lifetime, worldly existence; mankind; world |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | weraz | man; husband |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |