Etymograph

English

kelch

Kelch comes from German Kelch ‘chalice’, and goes back to Latin calix.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalix‘cup, chalice’
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kalik‘chalice’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050kelih‘chalice’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kelich‘chalice’
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentKelch‘chalice’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2015kelch

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalix‘cup, chalice’
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kalik‘chalice’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050kelih‘chalice’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kelich‘chalice’
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentKelch‘chalice’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2015kelch

Earliest quotation: 2015, Nadia Haingotiana Raboanatahiry et al.: “Comparison in chromosome location was based on kelch motif…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- ‘a kind of vessel’

cylinder, colon, scoliosis, colic, calender, skelly, 16 more

through Latin calix ‘cup, chalice’

chalice, 1 more

Today it means

noun A particular sequence of amino acids found in many proteins of eukaryotic and bacterial species

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

Etymograph / Latin calix / kelch

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