offshoot

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English off-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti?

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *sket-der.?

Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.?

Proto-Germanic *skeutaną

Proto-West Germanic *skeutan

Old English sċēotan

Middle English schoten

English shoot

English offshoot

From off- + shoot.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔf.ʃuːt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒf.ʃuːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

offshoot (plural offshoots)

1. Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.

   the offshoots of a tree

2. Something which develops from something else.

   Synonyms: child, spin-off

   an offshoot of a criminal organization

   • 1945 September and October, “Notes and News: The "Berks & Hants" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 299:

     The reason is that the Berks & Hants Railway Company, under the powers of which the line was built, also included the Reading-Basingstoke section. The company was an offshoot of the G.W.R., which absorbed it before any section was opened.

Translations

that which shoots off from a main stem

• Bulgarian: издънка (bg) f (izdănka), филиз (bg) m (filiz)
• Catalan: rebrot (ca) m, rebroll m, relluc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分枝 (zh) (fēnzhī)

• Dutch: zijtak (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sivuverso
• French: rejeton (fr) m
• Galician: trepeza f
• German: Ableger (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: παραφυάς f (paraphuás)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: شاخه (fa) (šâxe)
• Polish: odgałęzienie (pl) n, odnoga (pl) f
• Spanish: vástago (es) m
• Swedish: avknoppning c, skott (sv) n

that which develops from something else

• Bulgarian: разклонение (bg) n (razklonenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分支 (zh) (fēnzhī), 衍生物 (zh) (yǎnshēngwù), 支流 (zh) (zhīliú), 旁系 (zh) (pángxì)

• Dutch: uitloper (nl) m
• Finnish: rönsy (fi), haara (fi)
• French: dérivé (fr) m
• German: Ableger (de) m
• Persian: اِنشِعاب (fa) (enše'âb)
• Polish: odgałęzienie (pl) n, odnoga (pl) f
• Spanish: rama (es) f, ramal (es) m, ramificación f, derivado (es) m, filial (es) f
• Swedish: avknoppning c
• Ukrainian: відгалуження n (vidhalužennja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} فَصِيلَة (ar) f (faṣīla)
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} odnož f
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} uitloper (nl) m
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} განშტოება (ganšṭoeba), ^{(please verify)} განტოტება (ganṭoṭeba), ^{(please verify)} ამონაყარი (amonaq̇ari), ^{(please verify)} ყლორტი (q̇lorṭi), ^{(please verify)} რქა (ka) (rka), ^{(please verify)} ლერწი (ka) (lerc̣i), ^{(please verify)} ტოტი (ka) (ṭoṭi), ^{(please verify)} შტო (šṭo)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Ableger (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} discendente (it), ^{(please verify)} sfilato (it), ^{(please verify)} separato (it), ^{(please verify)} derivato (it)
• Māori: ^{(please verify)} rerenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} utløper m

• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} ramificacion (oc) f, ^{(please verify)} gaisson m, ^{(please verify)} rebrot (oc) m
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} desvio (pt) m, ^{(please verify)} ramificação (pt) m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} ramură (ro) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} ответвле́ние (ru) n (otvetvlénije), ^{(please verify)} отво́док (ru) m (otvódok)
• Tok Pisin: ^{(please verify)} han (tpi)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} відгалуження n (vidhalužennja), ^{(please verify)} бічний паросток m (bičnyj parostok) (of a plant)

Further reading

• “offshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “offshoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• shoot off