English
tangible
Tangible comes from Late Latin tangibilis ‘touchable, tangible’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to touch’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tangō‘to touch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtangōas tangere‘to touch’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtangibilis‘touchable, tangible’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tangible
- Englishearliest quotation 2019tangible
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to touch’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tangō‘to touch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtangōas tangere‘to touch’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtangibilis‘touchable, tangible’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tangible
- Englishearliest quotation 2019tangible
Earliest quotation: 2019, Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers: “While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’
taste, integrity, integrate, attain, taxis, taxonomy, talon, contaminate, contagion, tama, ataxia, tactician, talus, thwack, 29 more
through Proto-Italic *tangō ‘to touch’
through Latin tangō ‘to touch’
contact, contingent, tame, contiguous, tact, tangent, 10 more
Today it means
adj Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- / tangible