Etymograph

English

ventilation

Ventilation comes from Latin ventilo ‘to toss, swing, brandish in the air’, from ventulus ‘slight wind’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂weh₁-‘to blow (of wind)’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEventulus‘slight wind’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEventilo‘to toss, swing, brandish in the air’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEventilatio
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ventilacion
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600ventilation
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1912same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂weh₁-‘to blow (of wind)’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEventulus‘slight wind’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEventilo‘to toss, swing, brandish in the air’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEventilatio
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ventilacion
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600ventilation
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1912same form

Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “No, Mr. Malone, I will place no restriction upon…”

Formed from ventilate + -ion

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow (of wind)’

Latin ventilātus ‘ventilated’

English ventilate

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow (of wind)’

wind, van, winter, weather, event, wing, athlete, athletic, velocity, 9 more

Today it means

noun The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- / ventilation

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