English
thiazine
Thiazine comes from French azote ‘nitrogen’, from Ancient Greek ζῶ ‘to live’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷeyh₃-1‘to live’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷih₃wós1‘alive, living’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃weti1‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*gʷyṓw-ō1reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*d͏̌ṓwō1‘to live’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζώω1zṓō‘Epic and Ionic form of ζῶ’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶ1zô‘to live’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζωή1zōḗ
- Frenchc. 1600–presentazote1‘nitrogen’
- English1500–presentazine1
- Englishtodaythiazine1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English thiazine
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷeyh₃-Wiktionary, English thiazine‘to live’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷih₃wósWiktionary, English thiazine‘alive, living’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃wetiWiktionary, English thiazine‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*gʷyṓw-ōWiktionary, English thiazinereconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*d͏̌ṓwōWiktionary, English thiazine‘to live’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζώωWiktionary, English thiazinezṓō‘Epic and Ionic form of ζῶ’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶWiktionary, English thiazinezô‘to live’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζωήWiktionary, English thiazinezōḗ
- Frenchc. 1600–presentazoteWiktionary, English thiazine‘nitrogen’
- English1500–presentazineWiktionary, English thiazine
- EnglishtodaythiazineWiktionary, English thiazine
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ‘to live’
biology, kidney, vitamin, viable, revive, hygiene, vitality, zodiac, anaerobic, quicken, quicksilver, quickness, wyvern, biogenesis, 56 more
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós ‘alive, living’
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti ‘to live, to be alive’
vital, vivid, vivacious, vivacity, convivial, 21 more
through Ancient Greek ζωή
Today it means
noun A six-membered heterocycle containing four carbon atoms, one nitrogen and one sulfur atom, and two double bonds.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “thiazine”. 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 *gʷeyh₃- / thiazine