Etymograph

English

goniophotograph

Goniophotograph comes from Ancient Greek γράφω ‘to scratch, cut into’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-‘to carve’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*grə́pʰō‘to scratch, cut or carve into’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEγράφωgráphō‘to scratch, cut into’
  4. English1500–presentphotograph
  5. Englishtodaygoniophotograph

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-‘to carve’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*grə́pʰō‘to scratch, cut or carve into’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEγράφωgráphō‘to scratch, cut into’
  4. English1500–presentphotograph
  5. Englishtodaygoniophotograph

A compound of gonio- + photograph

Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu ‘knee’

Proto-Hellenic *gónu ‘knee’

Proto-Hellenic *gonwía

Ancient Greek γωνία ‘angle’

English gonio-

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’

grammar, crawl, crab, carve, crawfish, astrophotography, 79 more

through Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’

photography, graffiti, graft, demography, grimoire, epigraph, ultrasonography, sonography, 73 more

through Ancient Greek γράφω ‘to scratch, cut into’

cinema, graphic, graphite, graphene, epigram, 32 more

through English photograph

photo, 14 more

Today it means

noun A photograph of the eye made by gonioscopy

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- / goniophotograph