English

ethnosemantics

From ethno- + semantics.

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

Proto-Indo-European *dʰyéh₂mn̥

Ancient Greek σῆμᾰ ‘mark, sign, token’

Ancient Greek σημαίνω ‘to indicate’

Ancient Greek σημαντικός ‘significant, giving signs’

French sémantique ‘semantic’

Today it means

noun The branch of ethnolinguistics dealing with semantics.

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

Etymograph / ethnosemantics