English
ichthyoarchaeology
From ichthyo- + archaeology.
A compound of ichthyo- + archaeology
Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰúHs ‘fish’
Proto-Hellenic *ikʰtʰū́s
Ancient Greek ῐ̓χθῡ́ς ‘fish’
English ichthyo-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’
Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos
Proto-Hellenic *lógos
Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογίᾱ ‘antiquarian lore, ancient legends or history’
English archaeology
Today it means
noun The part of archaeology concerned with early man's exploitation of fish
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ichthyoarchaeology