Etymograph

English

genome

Genome comes from German Genom.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentGenom
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012genome

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentGenom
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012genome

Earliest quotation: 2012, -April, Well-connected Brains: “Creating a complete map of the human connectome would…”

A blend of gene + chromosome

Ancient Greek γενεά ‘generation, descent’

German Gen

English gene

German Chromosom

English chromosome

The story

From earlier genom, from German Genom, coined by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920 as a blend of Gen (‘gene’) + Chromosom (‘chromosome’). Spelling altered to reflect the surface analysis.

Every English word from German Genom

Today it means

noun The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.

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