Where does “neamhéifeachtúil” come from?
neamhéifeachtúil (Irish) comes from Irish éifeachtúil, from Irish éifeacht, from Old Irish éifecht, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
neamhéifeachtúil (Irish): inefficient
Definitions
- inefficient
Ancestry of “neamhéifeachtúil”, step by step
neamhéifeachtúil traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish éifeachtúil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | éifeachtúil | effectual |
| 2 | Irish | éifeacht | achievement, success |
| 3 | Old Irish | éifecht | efficacy, vigour, substance, meaning, purport |
| 4 | Old French | effect | effect; judgment; decree |
| 5 | Latin | effectus | made out, worked out, completed, finished,... |
| 6 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |