Etymograph

English

emphyteusis

Emphyteusis comes from Ancient Greek ἐμφύτευσις ‘tenure of a type of leasehold’, from ἐμφυτεύω ‘to implant, engraft’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to appear, become, rise up’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰuH-‘to appear, become, rise up’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰuHyéti‘to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*pʰúyō‘to grow, to appear’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφύωphúō‘to generate’
  5. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφῠτόςphŭtós‘natural’
  6. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφυτόν
  7. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφυτεύω‘to plant’
  8. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐμφυτεύω‘to implant, engraft’
  9. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐμφύτευσιςemphúteusis‘tenure of a type of leasehold’
  10. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemphyteusis
  11. Englishearliest quotation 1991same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰuH-‘to appear, become, rise up’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰuHyéti‘to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*pʰúyō‘to grow, to appear’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφύωphúō‘to generate’
  5. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφῠτόςphŭtós‘natural’
  6. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφυτόν
  7. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEφυτεύω‘to plant’
  8. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐμφυτεύω‘to implant, engraft’
  9. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἐμφύτευσιςemphúteusis‘tenure of a type of leasehold’
  10. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemphyteusis
  11. Englishearliest quotation 1991same form

Earliest quotation: 1991, Paul Freedman, The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: “The term “emphyteusis” first appeared late in the twelfth…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to appear, become, rise up’

power, future, possible, present, build, presence, improve, essential, bond, bound, absence, contribution, bush, entity, booth, approve, probability, absent, favorable, contributor, fiat, bun, distribute, favourable, bouquet, retribution, attribution, rebuke, bower, impossibility, aren, impotent, beamer, bosque, approbation, phylogeny, boor, futur, phylum, busk, 78 more

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti ‘to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing’

be, been, 9 more

through Proto-Hellenic *pʰúyō ‘to grow, to appear’

physical, physic, 9 more

through Ancient Greek φύω ‘to generate’

physics, physician, imp, 7 more

Today it means

noun A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- / emphyteusis

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