English
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Logo- comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘word, speech’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘word, speech’
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attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘word, speech’
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Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, astrology, lexical, cull, epilogue, dialectic, legation, cosmology, alexia, lignite, gynecologist, lexis, lignin, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, etymology, astrological, pathophysiology, homologous, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 102 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘word, speech’
logic, apology, sociology, trilogy, terminology, physiology, analogy, pathology, monologue, archaeologist, pathologist, prologue, logistic, logos, epistemology, eulogy, entomology, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, bacteriologist, syllogism, 111 more
Today it means
prefix word; speech.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / logo-