Etymograph

English

ethnoetiology

From ethno- + etiology.

A compound of ethno- + etiology

Ancient Greek ἔθνος ‘a company, later a people, nation’

English ethno-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’

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Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’

Ancient Greek αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ ‘giving the cause of something’

Latin aetiologia

English etiology

Today it means

noun ethnological etiology

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

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