English
endemic
Endemic comes from Ancient Greek δῆμος ‘a district, a country, a land’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- ‘to share, divide’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₂-‘to share, divide’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*déh₂mosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*dā́mosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEδῆμοςdêmos‘a district, a country, a land’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966endemic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₂-‘to share, divide’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*déh₂mosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*dā́mosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEδῆμοςdêmos‘a district, a country, a land’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966endemic
Earliest quotation: 1966, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, New York: “[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series…”
Formed from -ic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- ‘to share, divide’
through Ancient Greek δῆμος ‘a district, a country, a land’
democratic, democracy, democrat, academic, demos, pandemic, demography, demiurge, demotic, 27 more
Today it means
adj Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- / endemic