Etymograph

English

hetaerism

Hetaerism comes from Ancient Greek ἑταῖρος ‘companion’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swé ‘self’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swé‘self’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἑταῖροςhetaîros‘companion’
  3. Englishtodayhetaerism

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swé‘self’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἑταῖροςhetaîros‘companion’
  3. Englishtodayhetaerism

Formed from -ism

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *swé ‘self’

such, self, suicide, solo, idiot, sole, sans, solitary, solitude, desolate, desolation, swain, idiocy, solitaire, sullen, solus, sere, 18 more

Today it means

noun A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *swé / hetaerism

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