English
grapholect
Blend of grapheme + dialect, coined by linguist Einar Haugen in 1964.
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
Ancient Greek γράφω ‘write’
English grapheme
Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι ‘to participate in a dialogue’
Ancient Greek διάλεκτος ‘conversation, the language of a country or a…’
Latin dialectos ‘a dialect (esp. Greek)’
Middle French dialecte
English dialect
The story
Blend of grapheme + dialect, coined by linguist Einar Haugen in 1964.
Today it means
noun A written variant of a language, analogous to a spoken dialect of a language.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / grapholect