Where does “parent” come from?

parent (Middle French) comes from Old French parent, from Latin parēns, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

parent (Middle French): parent

Definitions

  1. parent

Ancestry of “parent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchparentparent
2Latinparēnsparent, mother, father
3Latinpariōto bear, to give birth to
4Latin-iō—
5Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
6Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
8Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “parent”

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