desmayar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to cause a person to faint
- (intransitive) to dishearten
- (pronominal) to faint lose consciousness
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French esmaier (perturb, frighten) derived from Latin *magō derived from Frankish *magan derived from Proto-Germanic *maganą (may, be able to, be able).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*maganą
Gloss
may, be able to, be able
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dismay English
- dismayer English
- dismayful English
- undismayable English
- *exmagare Latin
- *exmagāre Latin
- *magō Latin
- *(me)mógʰe Proto-Indo-European
- *magʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *megʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- desmaiar Portuguese
- *maganą Proto-Germanic
- magan Old English
- mægen Old English
- dismayen Middle English
- mega Old Norse
- úmagi Old Norse
- desmaier Old French
- esmaier Old French
- esmeance Old French
- mugan Old High German
- esmayer Middle French
- 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *magan gmw-pro
- mugan Old Dutch
- vormogen Middle Low German
- mugan Old Saxon
- *magan Frankish
- muga Old Frisian
- *desmaiier xno