Where does “sameksistens” come from?
sameksistens (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål eksistens, from Late Latin existentia, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
sameksistens (Norwegian Bokmål): coexistence
Ancestry of “sameksistens”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | eksistens | existence |
| 2 | Late Latin | existentia | existence |
| 3 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 4 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 5 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |