Where does “ベジタブル” come from?
ベジタブル (Japanese) comes from English vegetable, from Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetabilis, from Latin vegeto, from Latin vegetus, from Latin vegeo, from Proto-Italic wegeō — lively, awake; strong.
ベジタブル (Japanese): vegetable
Ancestry of “ベジタブル”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | vegetable | Any plant; A plant raised for some edible part of... |
| 2 | Middle English | vegetable | — |
| 3 | Old French | vegetable | — |
| 4 | Latin | vegetabilis | animating, enlivening, vivifying; able to produce... |
| 5 | Latin | vegeto | I arouse, enliven, quicken, animate, invigorate;... |
| 6 | Latin | vegetus | enlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active,... |
| 7 | Latin | vegeo | I move, excite, quicken, arouse; I am lively or... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | wegeō | to be active, lively |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | wegejō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | woǵ-éye- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵ- | lively, awake; strong |