Etymograph

English

folksonomy

Blend of folk + taxonomy.

A blend of folk + taxonomy

Proto-Germanic *fulką ‘troop, army’

Proto-West Germanic *folk ‘military, army, troop’

Old English folc ‘the people, especially the common people’

Middle English folk ‘people, folk’

English folk

Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’

French taxinomie

English taxonomy

Today it means

noun The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

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

Etymograph / folksonomy