Etymograph

English

transumpt

Transumpt comes from Latin trānsūmō ‘to take from one to another’, from emō ‘to buy, purchase’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁émetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō‘to take’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemō‘to buy, purchase’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmō‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsūmōas transumere‘to take from one to another’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1563transumpt

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁émetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō‘to take’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemō‘to buy, purchase’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmō‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsūmōas transumere‘to take from one to another’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1563transumpt

Earliest quotation: 1563, John Foxe, Answer of the Nobles of Bohemia: “As for the excommunication which he hath so long…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’

exempt, pommel, pomade, 55 more

through Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’

presume, 46 more

through Latin emō ‘to buy, purchase’

premium, redemption, redeem, exemption, ransom, preemption, emptor, 41 more

through Latin sūmō ‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim,…’

assume, consumer, resume, assumption, consume, résumé, sumptuous, consumable, overconsumption, 32 more

Today it means

noun A copy or exemplification of a record.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- / transumpt