Etymograph

English

provection

Provection comes from Latin prōvectiō ‘an advancement’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weǵʰ-1‘to bring’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōvectiō1‘an advancement’
  3. Englishtodayprovection1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English provection

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weǵʰ-Wiktionary, English provection‘to bring’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōvectiōWiktionary, English provection‘an advancement’
  3. EnglishtodayprovectionWiktionary, English provection

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’

way, always, via, vehicle, wave, reveal, halfway, weigh, wee, wagon, vogue, wedge, vein, vector, veil, headway, wag, eunuch, venous, wonky, vex, wey, waw, wain, vena, velar, invective, 39 more

Today it means

noun The carrying forward of a final consonant to a following word, as in "a nickname" from Middle English "an ekename".

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “provection”. 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 *weǵʰ- / provection

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