Where does “mí-éifeacht” come from?
mí-éifeacht (Irish) comes from Irish éifeacht, from Old Irish éifecht, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
mí-éifeacht (Irish): ineffectiveness
Definitions
- ineffectiveness
Ancestry of “mí-éifeacht”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | éifeacht | achievement, success |
| 2 | Old Irish | éifecht | efficacy, vigour, substance, meaning, purport |
| 3 | Old French | effect | effect; judgment; decree |
| 4 | Latin | effectus | made out, worked out, completed, finished,... |
| 5 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |