Where does “opinion” come from?

opinion (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Latin opīniō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

opinion (Norwegian Nynorsk): (public) opinion

Definitions

(public) opinion

Ancestry of “opinion”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	opīniō	opinion, conjecture, imagination, fancy, belief, expectation
2	Latin	-iō	—
3	Proto-West Germanic	-jō	Forms agent nouns from verbs
4	Proto-Indo-European	-yéti	Creates intransitive, often deponent,...
5	Proto-Indo-European	yé-	—
6	Chichewa	iye	he, she

Words derived from “opinion”

folkeopinion

Every word from Chichewa iye →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yéti →Every word from Latin -iō →