köken: From Old Japanese. First attested as sabusi in the Man'yōshū, completed sometime around 759 CE. Generally thought to derive from 荒ぶ (sabu, “to be desolate, to be lonely”), modern 錆びる (sabiru, “to rust, to get old”, intransitive). In early modern times, some dialects shift in reading from /-b-/ to /-m-/, thus creating samishii; similar to 頭 (tsuburi, tsumuri, “head”), in which tsuburi changes to…
köken: all- + ena Cognate with English alone (“alone”), Scots alane (“alone”), Saterland Frisian alleene (“alone”), West Frisian allinne (“alone”), Dutch alleen (“alone”), Low German alleen (“alone”), German allein (“alone”), Danish alene (“alone”). More at all, en.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háykas Sanskrit एक (eka) Sanskrit -ल (-la) Sanskrit एकल (ekala) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮 (ĕkkalla) Prakrit -𑀓- (-ka-) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀬 (ĕkkallaya) Old Hindi अकेला (akelā) Hindi अकेला Inherited from Old Hindi अकेला (akelā), a variant of एकला (ekalā), एकल (ekala) with metathesis, from Prakrit…