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