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Where does “sentīre” come from?
sentīre (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European sent-, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.
Ancestry of “sentīre”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Indo-European
sent-
to head for, to go, to travel; to feel
2
Proto-Indo-European
h₁es-
to be
Words derived from “sentīre”
sense
sentence
sensation
sensory
nonsense
sensual
senseless
sensuous
sensational
sensuality
commonsense
nonsensical
somatosensory
antisense
sensationalism
sensemaking
insensate
sententious
sensorineural
sentential
multisensory
sententiously
sensuousness
sensationalist
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