myEtymology.com: English etymology of by-pass

Etymology of the English word by-pass

the English word by-pass

derived from the English word by

derived from the English word bi

derived from the Obsolete German word Bismuth

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kweit-

derived from the Proto-Germanic root *bi

derived from the English word pass

derived from the Old French word passer

derived from the Vulgar Latin word passare

derived from the Late Latin word passus (spread out; outstretched; dried; step, pace)

derived from the Latin word pati (suffer; allow; undergo)

derived from the Latin word pandere (spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched])

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *petə-

French by-pass, Italian by-pass