English
alcoholmeter
Alcoholmeter comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayalcoholmeter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayalcoholmeter
A compound of alcohol + -meter
Sumerian Sumerian form ‘kohl’
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Aramaic כוחלא
Arabic كُحْل ‘kohl’
Medieval Latin alcohol
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, measure, moral, meal, sunny, dimension, immense, moody, meta, geometric, mesa, menstrual, symmetric, commensurate, mensa, centimetre, firman, menses, moodiness, metis, mete, 61 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
metric, metre, parameter, asymmetry, madder, metrology, metra, 43 more
Today it means
noun —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- / alcoholmeter