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Where does “tans” come from?

tans (Old French) comes from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

tans (Old French): time

Definitions

  1. time

Ancestry of “tans”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
2Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
3Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

Words derived from “tans”

  • tense
  • tensely
  • tenseness
  • tenseless
  • tensible
  • hypertense
  • untense
  • tensal
  • tense vowel
  • passe-temps
  • tens
  • tostans
  • passetemps
  • temps
  • tins
Every word from Proto-Indo-European temp- →