Etymograph

English

kismesis

Blend of kismet (“fate, destiny”) + nemesis.

A compound of kismet ‘fate, destiny’ + nemesis

Arabic قِسْمَة ‘lot, destiny, foreordained fate, kismet’

Ottoman Turkish قسمت ‘fate, destiny’

English kismet

Proto-Indo-European *ném-e-ti ‘to assign, allot’

Proto-Hellenic *némō

Ancient Greek νέμω ‘to distribute’

Ancient Greek Νέμεσις

English nemesis

The story

Coined by American author and webcomic artist Andrew Hussie in Homestuck.

Today it means

noun A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial romantic connection based on a feeling of hatred; a nemesis; a rival.

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

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