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Where does “napalmiser” come from?

napalmiser (French) comes from French napalm, from English napalm, from English naphthenic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

napalmiser (French): To napalm

Definitions

  1. To napalm

Ancestry of “napalmiser”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnapalm—
2EnglishnapalmA highly flammable, viscous substance, designed...
3EnglishnaphthenicOf, pertaining to, or derived from a naphthene
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →