English
cephalotribe
Cephalotribe comes from Ancient Greek τρίβω ‘to rub, grind’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tr-ey-gʷ-reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτρίβωtríbō‘to rub, grind’
- Englishtodaycephalotribe
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*terh₁-‘to rub’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tr-ey-gʷ-reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτρίβωtríbō‘to rub, grind’
- Englishtodaycephalotribe
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub’
turn, throw, tournament, thread, threshold, tragic, trout, tyrone, detrimental, detour, thrash, tourney, detriment, attrition, termite, triage, tourniquet, trite, detritus, tribulation, thresher, truant, tyro, thresh, derma, 40 more
Today it means
noun A surgical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- / cephalotribe