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NODE / 0011attestedAncient Greek

ἐτυμολογία

TRANSLITERATION etymología

analysis of a word’s true sense

DATE
classical / Hellenistic
SENSE
default
FAMILY
Indo-European / Hellenic
CANONICAL KEY
node:10:etymologia:attested
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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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GO DEEPERcompound memberestablished
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek

λόγος

word, speech, account, reckoning, reason

SOUND
Greek ἐτυμολογία contains the -λογία formation belonging to the λόγος family.
MEANING
The “account / study” member combines with ἔτυμος “true, real” to form etymology.
CHRONOLOGY
This is a branching compound analysis, not the direct ancestor chain through ἔτυμος.
SCHOLAR
Ancient Greek lexicography
CONFIDENCE
established
02

DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

1
03

TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
6
REVIEWED EDGES
6
DEEPEST PATH
4
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
4
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
HISTORICAL STEP 043 EDGES
STEP 04derivationestablished
SOUND
English adds the person-forming suffix -ist to etymology.
MEANING
The discipline name becomes the title of a specialist who studies word histories.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Douglas Harper2 CITATIONSEDGE 593 ↗
STEP 04derivationestablished
SOUND
English adds verb-forming -ize to etymology.
MEANING
The name of the inquiry becomes the act of discovering, stating, or studying etymologies.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Douglas Harper2 CITATIONSEDGE 600 ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

04

RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

1
SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpus recordestablished

Greek lexical and grammatical tradition

The date and form are source-reported. No manuscript or inscription facsimile has been directly inspected for this record.

etymology dossier · recorded as ἐτυμολογία
05

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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