Etymograph

English

depulsion

Depulsion comes from Latin depulsio ‘repelling’, from dēpellō ‘to drive out or away’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- ‘to approach’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pelh₂-1‘to approach’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥-né-h₂-ti ~ *pl̥-n-h₂-énti1uncertain
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pelnō2‘to approach’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpellō2‘push, drive’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēpellō3‘to drive out or away’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdepulsio4‘repelling’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1611depulsion4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *pelnō
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin depello
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Latin depulsio
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English depulsion
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., Henrie the Sixth, […]: “Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pelh₂-Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *pelnō‘to approach’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥-né-h₂-ti ~ *pl̥-n-h₂-éntiWiktionary, Proto-Italic *pelnōuncertain
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pelnōWiktionary, Latin depello‘to approach’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpellōWiktionary, Latin depello‘push, drive’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēpellōWiktionary, Latin depulsio‘to drive out or away’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdepulsioWiktionary, English depulsion‘repelling’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1611depulsionWiktionary, English depulsion. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., Henrie the Sixth, […]: “Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- ‘to approach’

polish, appel, 12 more

through Proto-Italic *pelnō ‘to approach’

impulse, repellent, repulse, 9 more

through Latin pellō ‘push, drive’

appeal, repeal, pulse, appellate, compel, compulsory, expel, propel, dispel, repel, pelt, compulsive, propulsion, expulsion, impel, rappel, 15 more

Today it means

noun expulsion or repulsion.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “depulsion”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Italic *pelnō, Latin depello, Latin depulsio. 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 *pelh₂- / depulsion

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