Etymograph

English

urinary

Urinary comes from Latin ūrīna ‘urine’, from Proto-Italic *ūrīnos ‘watery’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *woh₁-r̥.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*woh₁-r̥‘water’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ūrīnos‘watery’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūrīna‘urine’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900ūrīnārius
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1864urinary

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*woh₁-r̥‘water’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ūrīnos‘watery’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūrīna‘urine’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900ūrīnārius
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1864urinary

Earliest quotation: 1864, J.G. Lindsay: “Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room,…”

Equivalent to urine + -ary

Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-

Latin ūrīna

Middle English uryne

English urine

Linked words

through Latin ūrīna ‘urine’

urine, 1 more

Today it means

adj Of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting urine, its production, function, or excretion.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *woh₁-r̥ / urinary

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