English

kiloword

From kilo- + word.

Formed from kilo- + word

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- ‘hand’

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰesliyoy

Proto-Hellenic *kʰehliyoi ‘thousand’

Ancient Greek χίλιοι ‘one thousand’

English kilo-

Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to say’

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Proto-Germanic *wurdą

Proto-West Germanic *word

Old English word

Middle English word ‘a word’

English word

Today it means

noun A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1000 words.

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

Etymograph / kiloword