Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A transgender person, especially a trans woman.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo undergo gender transition. · To make someone undergo gender transition.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender English transgender Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ōm Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European *-ō ? Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Germanic *gumô Proto-West Germanic *gumō Old English guma Middle English gone? English gooney English goon blend English troon Coined as a blend of tr(ansgender) + (g)oon (“member of Something Awful”) on Something Awful, and later popularized by Kiwi Farms and 4chan. First attested in 2010.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Blend componenttransgenderen
- Blend componentgoonen · member of Something Awful
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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