Etymograph

English

aatheist

From a- + atheist, a negation of a negation.

Formed from a- + atheist

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

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Ancient Greek θεός ‘god’

Ancient Greek ἄθεος ‘godless, without god’

Latin atheos ‘an atheist’

Middle French athéiste

English atheist

The story

Technically (and disregarding this word's informality and humorousness), it should have been “anatheist”, with the euphonious prevocalic alpha privative (i.e., an-), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-); compare anaesthesia (from an- + aesthesia), anarchy, anorexia, and anaerobic.

Today it means

noun A person who does not believe in the existence of atheists.

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

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