'lineage-based' originates from English, specifically a compound of 'lineage' and 'based'. 'lineage' comes from Old French 'lignée' (from Latin 'linea' meaning 'line'), and 'based' derives from English 'base', ultimately from Old French 'baser' and Greek/Latin 'basis' meaning 'foundation'.

'lineage' changed from Old French 'lignée' and Latin 'linea' and eventually became the modern English word 'lineage'; 'based' developed from the noun 'base' (Old French/Latin) and the past-participial/adjectival use 'based' in English compound formations produced 'lineage-based'.

Initially, 'lineage' originally referred to a 'line' or 'descendants in a line'; over time its meaning shifted to 'ancestry' or 'family descent', and 'lineage-based' came to mean 'founded on or determined by ancestry'.