Where does “tivi” come from?
tivi (North Moluccan Malay) comes from English tv, from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε — resin, gum; to say, speak.
tivi (North Moluccan Malay): television
Definitions
- television
Ancestry of “tivi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tv | Alternative form of TV |
| 2 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 3 | French | télévision | television |
| 4 | German | Television | — |
| 5 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 6 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 7 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 18 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 19 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 20 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |