English
blog
Blog comes from English weblog.
- English1500–presentweblog
- Englishearliest quotation 2002blog
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentweblog
- Englishearliest quotation 2002blog
Earliest quotation: 2002, Biz Stone, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub.: “So you see, the blog has been around since…”
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- ‘to weave, braid’
Proto-Germanic *webaną ‘to weave’
Proto-Germanic *wabją ‘something woven’
Old English webb ‘web’
Middle English web ‘Woven fabric’
English web
English World Wide Web
English Web
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- ‘to divide, distribute, allot’
Proto-Germanic *bōks ‘letter, written message, inscriptions carved into a flat object pressed together, “book”’
Proto-West Germanic *bōk ‘inscribed billet, letter’
Old English bōc ‘book’
Middle English bok ‘a document, especially if extensive and composed of bound pages’
English book
English logbook
English log
The story
Rebracketing of weblog, as if it means we blog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.
Every English word from English weblog
Today it means
noun A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English weblog / blog