English

geogenesis

geo- + -genesis

Formed from geo + genesis

Old Norse gjá ‘chasm, rift, crack’

Norn gjo ‘an inlet, gully or cleft in a rocky coast,…’

English geo

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce’

Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis ‘birth, production’

Proto-Hellenic *génetis ‘origin, source’

Ancient Greek γένεσις ‘origin, source, beginning’

Latin genesis ‘generation, nativity’

Today it means

noun The formation of the planet Earth.

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

Etymograph / geogenesis