Where does “gempa utama” come from?
gempa utama (Indonesian) comes from English mainshock, from English shock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar, from Russian шоки́ровать, from Russian -и́ровать.
gempa utama (Indonesian): the largest earthquake in a sequence. Sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity; mainshock
Definitions
- the largest earthquake in a sequence. Sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity; mainshock
Ancestry of “gempa utama”, step by step
gempa utama traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English mainshock
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mainshock | The largest earthquake in a sequence. Sometimes... |
| 2 | English | shock | A sudden, heavy impact; A discontinuity arising... |
| 3 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 4 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 5 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 6 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 7 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 8 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 9 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 10 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 11 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 12 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 13 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 14 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
via Indonesian utama
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | utama | best |
| 2 | Malay | utama | main |
| 3 | Classical Malay | utama | best; main, principal |
| 4 | Sanskrit | उत्तम | uppermost, highest, most elevated; chief,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | uttamás | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | utˢtamás | highest, most elevated |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ud-tm̥m-ó-s | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |