Etymograph

English

genual

Genual comes from Latin genū ‘knee’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵónu‘knee’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*genureconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenū‘knee’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900genuālis
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1996genual

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵónu‘knee’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*genureconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenū‘knee’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900genuālis
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1996genual

Earliest quotation: 1996, E.E. Linquist, Eriophyoid Mites: Their Biology: “The phyllocoptine species Paraciota tetracanthae Mohanasundaram (1984) exemplifies a…”

Equivalent to genū + -al

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu ‘knee’

knit, gon, kneel, 22 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to a genu or to the knee.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu / genual

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