English
hyla
Hyla comes from Ancient Greek ὕλη ‘wood, forest’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὕληhúlē‘wood, forest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985hyla
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὕληhúlē‘wood, forest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985hyla
Earliest quotation: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow: “I lifted one of the skins from the mortar…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *swel- ‘firewood, wood, beam’
swell, swollen, methyl, ethane, swole, swill, ethyl, isopropyl, phenyl, 33 more
Today it means
noun A tree frog of the genus Hyla.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὕλη / hyla