Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryto be; have existence; have being or reality
From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
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- Derivation mentionexisterfr
- Derivation mentionexsistola
- Derivation mention*stísteh₂tiine-pro
- Cognate mentionexistires
- Cognate mentionexisterfr
- Cognate mentionesistereit
- Cognate mentionexistierende
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