English
hyphenism
From hyphen + -ism.
Formed from hyphen + -ism
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one’
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Proto-Hellenic *hens
Ancient Greek εἷς ‘one’
Ancient Greek ῠ̔φέν ‘in one, as a single word’
Late Latin hyphen
English hyphen
Today it means
noun The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, e.g. in Irish-American.
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Etymograph / hyphenism