repugnancy
English
noun
Definitions
- The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.
- The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.
- (archaic) Resistance, fight fighting back.
Etymology
Suffix from English repugnant root from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (punch, prick, strike, stab).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pewǵ-
Gloss
punch, prick, strike, stab
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pugnacious English
- repugn English
- repugnant English
- repugnantly English
- repugnantness English
- self-repugnant English
- unrepugnant English
- impugnō Latin
- pugil Latin
- pugio Latin
- pugno Latin
- pūgnus Latin
- repugnans Latin
- repugno Latin
- appunto Italian
- répugner French
- πυγμή Ancient Greek
- πυγών Ancient Greek
- πύξ Ancient Greek
- *peuḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pewǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *puǵnos Proto-Indo-European
- *puḱnos Proto-Indo-European
- *fukkōną Proto-Germanic
- *fukkōną#Etymology_2 Proto-Germanic
- repugnance Old French
- repugnant Old French
- repugnar Ido
- *pungō Proto-Italic