Etymograph

English

GOAT

GOAT comes from Middle English tyme ‘the concept of time or duration’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dh₂i-mon-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*tīmô‘time’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*tīmōreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150tīma‘a time, hour’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tyme‘the concept of time or duration’
  6. English1500–presenttime
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2009GOAT

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dh₂i-mon-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*tīmô‘time’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*tīmōreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150tīma‘a time, hour’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tyme‘the concept of time or duration’
  6. English1500–presenttime
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2009GOAT

Earliest quotation: 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Comm, Good government: eighth report of session 2008-09: “The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.”

Linked words

through Old English tīma ‘a time, hour’

uptime, 1 more

through Middle English tyme ‘the concept of time or duration’

time, thyme, 2 more

Today it means

noun A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- / GOAT

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