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Where does “transcender” come from?

transcender (Old French) comes from Latin transcendo, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.

Ancestry of “transcender”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatintranscendoI climb, pass, cross or step over; I overstep,...
2Latinscandō—
3Proto-Indo-Europeansḱend-—

Words derived from “transcender”

  • transcendent
  • transcend
  • transcendence
  • transcending
  • transcendently
  • transcendency
  • transcender
  • nontranscendent
  • transcendingly
  • transcendentness
  • hypertranscendence
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