NODE / 0012attestedAncient Greek
ἔτυμος
TRANSLITERATION étymos
true, real, genuine
- DATE
- archaic Greek
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:etymos:attested
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceproposed
Proto-Indo-European · prehistoric*set-u-
true; real; in true order
- SOUND
- The attested Greek adjective is analyzed through an earlier *setu-mo- formation; initial *s is lost in the proposed path.
- MEANING
- Truth, actuality, and proper order form the reconstructed semantic field.
- SCHOLAR
- Beekes 2010 · Pinault · de Lamberterie
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The exact morphology and wider family have competing analyses.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
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
- 7
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 7
- DEEPEST PATH
- 5
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 4
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- The compound joins ἔτυμος “true, real” and -λογία “account, study.”
- MEANING
- A word’s “true sense” becomes an object of analysis.
Ancient Greek lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 10 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin borrowed Greek ἐτυμολογία.
- MEANING
- A Greek technical concept entered Latin grammatical tradition.
Latin and Greek lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 9 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.
- MEANING
- Scholarly explanation of a word’s origin continued.
French historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 8 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English adapted the learned French form and later aligned spelling with the classical model.
- MEANING
- The technical term broadened into the modern historical discipline.
OED · historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 7 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 053 EDGES
STEP 05derivationestablished
- 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 05derivationestablished
- 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 ↗ STEP 05competing derivationproposed
- SOUND
- English etymological is alternatively segmented as etymology plus -ical.
- MEANING
- The discipline noun becomes a relational adjective.
“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.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE