English
accentologist
Accentologist comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009accentologist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009accentologist
Earliest quotation: 2009, Thomas Olander, Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility: “An important point in Kuryłowicz's Balto-Slavic accentology was his…”
A compound of accent + -ologist
Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- ‘to sing’
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Medieval Latin accentus
Middle French accent
Anglo-Norman accent
Middle English accent
English accent
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, legion, catalogue, negligence, negligible, lexicon, leach, negligent, lexical, diligent, cull, astrology, epilogue, dialectic, cosmology, legation, alexia, lignite, lignin, lexis, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 150 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, astrological, psychopathology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, histopathology, 101 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, logos, pathology, monologue, prologue, eulogy, archaeologist, pathologist, logistic, epistemology, etiology, entomology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, 110 more
Today it means
noun One who studies accentology.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / accentologist