Where does “propinquite” come from?
propinquite (Middle English) comes from Middle French propinquité, from Latin propinquitas, from Latin propinquus, from Latin hinc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin, gum; to say, speak.
Ancestry of “propinquite”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle French | propinquité | — |
| 2 | Latin | propinquitas | nearness, propinquity, proximity; connection,... |
| 3 | Latin | propinquus | near, neighboring; near, at hand, not far off;... |
| 4 | Latin | hinc | hence, from this place; henceforth; because of... |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |