Where does “abominable” come from?

abominable (Galician) comes from Late Latin abominabilis, from Latin abōminor, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

abominable (Galician): abominable

Definitions

  1. abominable

Ancestry of “abominable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinabominabilisabominable, detestable; deserving abhorrence
2Latinabōminorto deprecate (as an ill omen)
3Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
4Latinābfrom, away from, out of
5Proto-Germanic*ab—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →