Etymograph

English

holmos

Holmos comes from Ancient Greek ὅλμος ‘round, smooth stone’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*welH-‘to turn, wind’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὅλμοςhólmos‘round, smooth stone’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1873holmos

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*welH-‘to turn, wind’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὅλμοςhólmos‘round, smooth stone’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1873holmos

Earliest quotation: 1873, Ercole G. Massi, Sculptures and Galleries in the Vatican Palace: “The large vase of a globular form standing in…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind’

well, walk, wall, volume, revolution, evolution, valve, involve, vault, evolve, vulgar, revolt, waltz, helix, divulge, convoluted, vagrant, vulva, wale, voluminous, gauche, vulgate, iliac, convolution, ilium, valvular, valise, involution, voluble, 75 more

Today it means

noun An Ancient Greek or Etruscan vase with a rounded body, especially a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal, or a drinking cup with a foot and stem.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *welH- / holmos

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