Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms. · Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human. · A higher animal; an animal related to humans. · A tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos Proto-Italic *anamos Latin animus Latin anima Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin animālisnom. Latin animalder. Old French animalbor. Middle English animal English animal From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of the adjective form animāle, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”). Displaced native English deer (outside puristic usage) in the general animal sense, from Middle English der, deor (“animal”), from Old English dēor, related to German Tier (“animal”), Dutch dier, Danish dyr, Swedish djur etc. Displaced also rother (“horned animal, esp. ox”, now obsolete), from Middle English rother, reother (“a bovine”), from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer.
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- Root classification mention*h₂enh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionanimalenm
- Derivation mentionanimalfro
- Derivation mentionanimalla
- Non-cognate comparisondeeren
- Non-cognate comparisonder,deorenm
- Cognate mentiondēorang
- Non-cognate comparisonTierde
- Non-cognate comparisondiernl
- Non-cognate comparisondyrda
- Non-cognate comparisondjursv
- Cognate mentionhrīþer,hrȳþerang
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