Etymograph

English

interblag

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2006 in his webcomic xkcd as a spoof of Internet jargon.

Formed from inter- + blag ‘blog’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

English inter-

The story

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2006 in his webcomic xkcd as a spoof of Internet jargon.

Today it means

name The Internet.

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

Etymograph / interblag