Where does “fissure” come from?

fissure (Middle English) comes from Old French fissure, from Latin fissura, from Latin findō, from Proto-Italic findō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- — bee.

fissure (Middle English): fissure, rupture

Definitions

  1. fissure, rupture

Ancestry of “fissure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfissure—
2Latinfissurafissure, cleft; nominative feminine singular of...
3Latinfindōto cleave, break up, separate, divide, split, part
4Proto-Italicfindōsplit, cleave
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeyd-to split
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰey-bee

Words derived from “fissure”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd- →Every word from Proto-Italic findō →