inheritance; heritage; legacy; bequest (property that is bequeathed and inherited) · heritage (anything that is passed down from preceding generations, e.g. genes, values, attitudes, traditions, etc.)
köken: From Middle High German erbe, from Old High German erbi, from Proto-West Germanic *arbī, from Proto-Germanic *arbiją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”). Cognate with Dutch erf (“yard”), obsolete English erf. Related to German Arbeit (“work”).
köken: From Middle Dutch [Term?], from Old Dutch ervidēl, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Middle High German erbeteil (German Erbteil), Middle Low German ervedēl. By surface analysis, erven (“to inherit”) or erf (“inheritance”) + deel (“part”).
inheritance, heritage, legacy (that which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament) · heritage (a tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory)
çekim: çoğul κληρονομιές · tamlayan κληρονομιάς
eş: κληρονομία
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek *κληρονομιά (*klēronomiá) from Ancient Greek κληρονομία (klēronomía), with synizesis of the final vowels.
genome (complete genetic information of an organism) · genotype (combination of alleles that determines a specific trait of an individual) · inheritance (biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring)
çekim: çoğul perimät · tamlayan perimän
eş: genomi, genotyyppi
köken: periä (“to inherit”) + -mä; that which is inherited
Inherited from Old Spanish herencia, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin haerentia, an irregular derivation from Latin hēres. The inherited Old Spanish herença didn't survive into modern Spanish. Compare Ladino erensya, Portuguese herança, Galician herdanza.