Etymograph

English

abaxial

Abaxial comes from English axial ‘axis’.

  1. English1500–presentaxial‘axis’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1992abaxial

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentaxial‘axis’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1992abaxial

Earliest quotation: 1992, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, Chicago: “The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the…”

A compound of ab- ‘away from’ + axial ‘axis’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo ‘off, away’

English ab-

Every English word from English axial

Today it means

adj Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf, or the back of an animal.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English axial / abaxial

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