Where does “時間旅行” come from?
時間旅行 (Japanese) comes from English time travel, from English travel, from Middle English travelen, from Middle Scots travailen, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
Ancestry of “時間旅行”, step by step
時間旅行 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English time travel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | time travel | Hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or... |
| 2 | English | travel | To be on a journey, often for pleasure or... |
| 3 | Middle English | travelen | to make a laborious journey, travel |
| 4 | Middle Scots | travailen | to toil, work, travel |
| 5 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 7 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 8 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |