Where does “deviant” come from?
deviant (German) comes from Latin devians, from Latin dēviō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
deviant (German): deviant
Ancestry of “deviant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | devians | straying, deviating, detouring |
| 2 | Latin | dēviō | — |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |