paralian

Meaning

Noun

• (rare) someone who lives by the sea
• a member of an ancient Greek people who lived by the Athenian coast in the 6th century BCE

Origin

• Early 18^th century adoption into English as a common noun, with its earliest use credited to Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton..
• From the Ancient Greek proper noun Παράλιος which is a derivation of the de-capitalised παράλιος.
• παράλιος is formed by a combination of "παρά-" + "-ἁλ-" + "-ιος"ː
• παρά- which is a prefix derived from the preposition παρά; from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *preh₂- which is derived from the older root *per-.
• -ἁλ- which is a shortened variant of ἅλς; from the PIE noun *séh₂ls.
• -ιος is a suffix which forms adjectives from nouns with a sense of "belonging, pertaining to, being of something"; from the PIE suffix *-yós which creates adjectives when affixed to nouns or verb stems.