Etymograph

English

ankyroid

Ankyroid comes from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα ‘anchor, hook’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄγκυραánkura‘anchor, hook’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997ankyroid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄγκυραánkura‘anchor, hook’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997ankyroid

Earliest quotation: 1997, Ronald L. Parsley, The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calc: “Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- ‘corner, hirn’

angle, ing, 15 more

through Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα ‘anchor, hook’

angora

Today it means

adj Hook-shaped; uncinate.

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

Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα / ankyroid

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