Etymograph

English

veniable

Veniable comes from Latin venia ‘forgiveness, pardon’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- ‘to wish, love’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wenh₁-1‘to wish, love’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wenjā1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvenia2‘forgiveness, pardon’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEveniabilis2
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1672veniable2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin venia
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English veniable
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wenh₁-Wiktionary, Latin venia‘to wish, love’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wenjāWiktionary, Latin veniareconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEveniaWiktionary, English veniable‘forgiveness, pardon’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEveniabilisWiktionary, English veniable
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1672veniableWiktionary, English veniable. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- ‘to wish, love’

win, won, wish, wonder, wont, wen, venom, wynn, wean, venerable, winsome, ween, venereal, venerate, 17 more

Today it means

adj venial; pardonable

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “veniable”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin venia. 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 *wenh₁- / veniable

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