Etymograph

English

inula

Inula comes from Latin inula ‘any of several plants of the genus Inula,…’, from Ancient Greek ἰνάω ‘to purify’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hish₂-reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἰνάω‘to purify’literally ‘send forth’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinula‘any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1977same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hish₂-reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἰνάω‘to purify’literally ‘send forth’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinula‘any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1977same form

Earliest quotation: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: “In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal…”

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂-

Today it means

noun Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂- / inula

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