Etymograph

English

familial

Familial comes from French familial ‘relating to a family’, from Latin famulus ‘servant’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do, place, put’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-‘to do, place, put’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰh₁-m-eló-reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfamulus‘servant’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfamilia‘family’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentfamilial‘relating to a family’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1870same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-‘to do, place, put’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰh₁-m-eló-reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfamulus‘servant’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfamilia‘family’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentfamilial‘relating to a family’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1870same form

Earliest quotation: 1870, John Sibbald, German Psychological Literature: “Asylums and the Care of the Insane.—Dr. Wille, the…”

Equivalent to family + -al

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do, put, place’

Proto-Italic *fameliā ‘household’

Latin familia ‘household’

Middle English famylye

English family

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do, place, put’

do, fact, hot, deal, defense, benefit, feature, fair, fan, fashion, theme, mid, defence, custom, ethnic, sufficient, treasury, treasure, thesis, aesthetic, defendant, feast, synthetic, theology, ethical, doom, tick, deed, dis, atheist, ethic, auditorium, auditor, atheism, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, forfeit, demi, 130 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to a human family.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- / familial

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