Etymograph

English

exophagy

From exo- (“outside, external”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).

Formed from exo- ‘outside, external’ + -phagy ‘to feed on’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’

Proto-Hellenic *eks

Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘Out of, from’

Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘outer’

English exo-

Today it means

noun Cannibalism, of those outside a social group.

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

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