English
anesis
Anesis comes from Ancient Greek ἄνεσις ‘loosening, abatement, remission’, from ἵημι ‘to release, let go’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-1‘to throw’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*yīyēmi1reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἵημι2‘to release, let go’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνίημι3‘let go, loose’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄνεσις4ánesis‘loosening, abatement, remission’
- Englishtodayanesis4
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημι
- 2 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἀνίημι
- 3 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἄνεσις
- 4 Wiktionary, English anesis
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημι‘to throw’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*yīyēmiWiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημιreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἵημιWiktionary, Ancient Greek ἀνίημι‘to release, let go’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνίημιWiktionary, Ancient Greek ἄνεσις‘let go, loose’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄνεσιςWiktionary, English anesisánesis‘loosening, abatement, remission’
- EnglishtodayanesisWiktionary, English anesis
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’
year, project, hour, disease, object, ease, jet, adjacent, injection, trajectory, inject, jess, conjecture, ejection, jetty, abject, eject, ejaculation, gist, ejaculate, jut, subjection, interject, jettison, jetsam, joist, 41 more
through Ancient Greek ἵημι ‘to release, let go’
Today it means
noun Remission of disease symptoms.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “anesis”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Ancient Greek ἵημι, Ancient Greek ἀνίημι, Ancient Greek ἄνεσις. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / anesis