Etymology

pretendianism

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Today it means: The phenomenon of individuals falsely claiming to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry. Full definition →

English Pretendian ← Middle English Indien ← Anglo-Norman indien
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ten-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*tend-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*téndeti
  10. Proto-Italic*tendō
  11. Latintendō
  12. Latinpraetendō
  13. Anglo-Normanpretendre
  14. Englishpretend
  15. Old FrenchInde
  16. Anglo-Normanindien
  17. Middle EnglishIndien
  18. English(Ind)ian
  19. EnglishPretendian
  20. English todayPretendianism

From Pretendian + -ism.

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