Where does “elacioun” come from?
elacioun (Middle English) comes from Old French elacion, from Latin ēlātiō, from Latin ēlātus, from Latin efferō, from Latin efferus, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
Ancestry of “elacioun”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | elacion | — |
| 2 | Latin | ēlātiō | The act of carrying out; carrying to a grave, burial |
| 3 | Latin | ēlātus | brought or carried out, forth or away, having been carried away |
| 4 | Latin | efferō | to bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport |
| 5 | Latin | efferus | savage; very wild, fierce or savage; wild, savage |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |