Etymograph

English

exhaust

Exhaust comes from Latin exhaustus ‘drawn out, exhausted, drained off, emptied,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to become light’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-‘to become light’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-ye-tireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*auziōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhauriō‘to draw, drain’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhauriō‘to draw out, empty by drawing, deplete’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhaustus‘drawn out, exhausted, drained off, emptied, depleted, having been exhausted’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1910exhaust

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-‘to become light’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-ye-tireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*auziōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhauriō‘to draw, drain’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhauriō‘to draw out, empty by drawing, deplete’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhaustus‘drawn out, exhausted, drained off, emptied, depleted, having been exhausted’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1910exhaust

Earliest quotation: 1910, Walter Mason Camp, The Railway and Engineering Review: “Steam from both high pressure cylinders exhausts through the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to become light’

or, air, east, plane, aerial, malaria, aurora, aria, aero, aura, oriel, aureus, aurelia, oriole, aurum, austral, 63 more

Today it means

verb To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- / exhaust

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