Etymograph

English

interior

Interior comes from Latin interior ‘inner’, from earlier *interus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ‘inner’, from *h₁én ‘in’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁én‘in’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁énteros‘inner’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*interus‘inner’reconstructed
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterior‘inner’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1989interior

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁én‘in’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁énteros‘inner’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*interus‘inner’reconstructed
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterior‘inner’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1989interior

Earliest quotation: 1989, Priit J. Vesilind, The Baltic: Arena of Power: “Nearly 44 percent of all cargo involves the Soviet…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁en ‘in’

inner, introversion

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ‘inner, what is inside’

entrance, enter, introduce, intro, 15 more

Today it means

adj Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁én / interior

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