Etymograph

English

hyperdescent

From hyper- + descent.

Formed from hyper- + descent

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Anglo-Norman descendre ‘to descend’

Anglo-Norman descente

English descent

Today it means

noun The practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry into the more socially dominant of the parents' races.

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

Etymograph / hyperdescent