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.
propinquite (Middle English): closeness, proximity
Definitions
- closeness, proximity
Ancestry of “propinquite”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | this; these in the plural |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 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 | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 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 |