English
archaeological
Archaeological comes from Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογίᾱ ‘antiquarian lore, ancient legends or history’, from λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and ultimately from 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’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀρχαιολογίᾱarkhaiologíā‘antiquarian lore, ancient legends or history’
- English1500–presentarchaeology
- Englishearliest quotation 2018archaeological
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’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀρχαιολογίᾱarkhaiologíā‘antiquarian lore, ancient legends or history’
- English1500–presentarchaeology
- Englishearliest quotation 2018archaeological
Earliest quotation: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History: “A living floor is, in archaeological terms, the floor…”
A compound of archaeology + -ical
Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογία ‘antiquarian lore, ancient legends, history’
English archaeology
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, negligence, catalogue, negligent, negligible, diligent, leach, astrology, lexicon, cull, epilogue, cosmology, lexical, legation, dialectic, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, alexia, ineligibility, dialogic, 152 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, astrological, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 103 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
logic, apology, trilogy, sociology, terminology, analogy, physiology, logos, pathology, monologue, prologue, eulogy, pathologist, logistic, epistemology, entomology, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, 111 more
Today it means
adj Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / archaeological