Etymograph

English

logorrhean

Logorrhean comes from Ancient Greek ῥοία ‘flow, flux’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *srew-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*srew-‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sréweti‘to flow’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hréwō‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥέωrhéō‘to flow’
  5. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEῥοίαrhoía‘flow, flux’
  6. English1500–presentlogorrhea
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1963logorrhean

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*srew-‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sréweti‘to flow’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hréwō‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥέωrhéō‘to flow’
  5. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEῥοίαrhoía‘flow, flux’
  6. English1500–presentlogorrhea
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1963logorrhean

Earliest quotation: 1963, F. P. Tullius, After Hours: “Considering that—if all systems were go—4000 could probably write…”

A compound of logorrhea + -an

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow, stream’

stream, rhythm, maelstrom, rheumatism, rheumatology, 42 more

through Ancient Greek ῥέω ‘to flow’

rheumatic, hemorrhoid, rheology, 7 more

Today it means

adj Relating to logorrhea (excessive talkativeness or verbosity).

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *srew- / logorrhean

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