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humo m. (Noun) "smoke" 11th cent. From Latin fumus 'id.' From Proto-Italic *fūmo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *d^hu̯h₂-mó- 'id.' From a root *d^hu̯eh₂- "to smoke" (whence heder) and the noun-forming suffix *-mó- (see -mo). Indo-European Romance Asturian fumu, Portuguese fumo, Galician fume, Catalan fum, French fumée, Italian fumo, Aromanian fum, Romanian fum, Sardinian fummu Germanic Old High German toum "steam" Balto-Slavic Old Church Slavonic dymъ "smoke," Old Prussian dumis 'id.,' Lithuanian dū́mai 'id.' Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
humor m. (Noun) "humor" 13th cent. Originally referring to bodily humors. Borrowed from Medieval Latin umor 'id.' and the h- added through hypercorrection. From Latin umor "liquid." From Proto-Italic *ūmo- "wet." From Proto-Indo-European *u̯h₁-mo- "wet." A putative root *u̯eh₁- "to be wet" is extremely uncertain. Indo-European Italic Latin uvidus "soaked" Celtic Middle Irish fúal "urine" Germanic Old Norse vǫkr "moist," Middle Dutch wac 'id.' Hellenic Ancient Greek ὑγρός (ygrós) "wet" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
humus (1) m. (Noun) "humus" A collection of decomposing organic compounds. Borrowed from Latin humus "earth," "soil." From Proto-Italic *χomo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *d^hǵ-ōm 'id.,' with a stem *d^heǵ- of uncertain meaning. Indo-European Romance French humus Italic Oscan húnttram "who is below" (< *ǵ^hom-tero-, the second element being the comparative suffix *-tero- added (see -tr-)), Umbrian hutra "the one underneath" (< *ǵ^hom-tero-), Celtic Old Irish dú "place" Balto-Slavic Old Church Slavonic zemlja "earth," Russian zemljá 'id.,' Czech země 'id.,' Bulgarian zemjá, Old Prussian semmē 'id.,' Lithuanian žẽmė 'id.,' Latvian zeme 'id.' Albanian Albanian dhe "earth" Hellenic Ancient Greek χθών (k^ht^hón) "earth" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit kṣā́ḥ "earth," Avestan zā̊ 'id.' Tocharian A tkaṃ "earth," B keṃ* 'id.'* de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
humus (2) m. (Noun) "hummus" Borrowed from Turkish humus 'id.,' which in turn was borrowed from Arabic ḥummuṣ "hummus," but more accurately "chickpeas," the main ingredient in hummus. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
hundir (Verb) "to sink" 13th cent. From Latin fundere "to pour." The evolution from "pouring" into "sinking" comes from naval war; the word was used as a term for sinking enemy seacraft. From Proto-Italic *χund-e/o- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *ǵ^hu-n-d- 'id.,' a d-present re-interpreted as a nasal present, but the change from *ǵ^h- to χ- in Proto-Italic is unexpected. Indo-European* Romance Asturian fundir, Galician fundir Italic Umbrian hondu "throw down," Faliscan huti[c]ilom (?) "vasette?" Germanic Gothic giutan "to pour," Old English gheotan 'id.' (English gush) Hellenic Ancient Greek χέω (k^héo) "I pour Armenian Armenian jew "mould" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit juhóti "pours," Avestan ā-zūiti- "butter," "sacrificial fat" Tocharian B ku- "to pour" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.