Where does “yacimiento” come from?

yacimiento (Spanish) comes from Spanish yacer, from Latin iacere, from Latin iaceō, from Latin -eō, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European -yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

yacimiento (Spanish): deposit; field or formation

Definitions

  1. deposit; field or formation

Ancestry of “yacimiento”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishyacerto lie; to recline
2Latiniacerepresent active infinitive of iaciō; second-person...
3Latiniaceōto lie prostrate, lie down; recline
4Latin-eō
5Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
6Proto-Italic-ējō
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
8Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eōEvery word from Latin iaceō