Etymograph

English

sane

Sane comes from Latin sānus ‘healthy’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-‘to satisfy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-no-reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānos‘healthy’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānus‘healthy’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2008sane

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-‘to satisfy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-no-reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānos‘healthy’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānus‘healthy’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2008sane

Earliest quotation: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction): “Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’

sad, secular, saturation, insatiable, hadron, sade, saturate, satiety, satiate, 20 more

through Latin sānus ‘healthy’

sanity, sanitary, 7 more

Today it means

adj Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- / sane

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