Etymograph

English

logopedics

Logopedics comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason’
  4. Englishtodaylogopedics

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason’
  4. Englishtodaylogopedics

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, astrology, diligent, cull, lexicon, epilogue, lexical, cosmology, legation, gynecologist, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, dialectical, dialectic, ineligibility, dialogic, 149 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, astrological, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 101 more

through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story,…’

logic, apology, trilogy, sociology, terminology, analogy, physiology, pathology, monologue, logos, prologue, pathologist, archaeologist, eulogy, logistic, epistemology, entomology, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, bacteriologist, syllogism, 110 more

Today it means

noun The study, and correction, of speech and language defects, disorders in communication and swallowing disorders.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / logopedics