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Where does “experience” come from?

experience (Middle English) comes from Latin experientia, from Latin experiens, from Latin experior, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.

Ancestry of “experience”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinexperientiaa trial, proof, experiment; experimental...
2Latinexperienstesting, trying, experiencing
3LatinexperiorI attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I...
4Latinpariō—
5Latin-iō—
6Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
7Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
9Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “experience”

  • experience
  • experienced
  • experiencing
  • inexperienced
  • experiential
  • experientially
  • experiencer
  • unexperienced
  • reexperience
  • experienceable
  • experientialism
  • experientialist
  • nonexperiential
  • experientiality
  • panexperientialism
  • nonexperienced
  • nonexperience
  • experienceless
  • unexperienceable
  • postexperience
  • nonexperiencing
  • underexperienced
  • panexperientialist
  • postexperiential
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