English
Neogrammarian
From neo- + grammarian, as a calque of the German Junggrammatiker.
Formed from neo- + grammarian
Proto-Indo-European *nu ‘now’
Proto-Indo-European *néwos ‘new’
Proto-Hellenic *néwos ‘new’
Ancient Greek νέος ‘young’
English neo-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
Middle French gramarien
Middle English gramarien ‘a grammarian’
English grammarian
Today it means
noun A member or follower of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Neogrammarian