Etymograph

English

ruga

Ruga comes from Latin rūga ‘a crease in the face, wrinkle’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₁roug-h₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁roug-h₂-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rougāreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErūga‘a crease in the face, wrinkle’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1980ruga

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁roug-h₂-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rougāreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErūga‘a crease in the face, wrinkle’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1980ruga

Earliest quotation: 1980, Joseph Kenneth Jonathan, The Isotima-complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): “Female: Face subpolished, weakly rugose, rugae somewhat diverging, at…”

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roug-h₂-

Today it means

noun A fold, crease or wrinkle.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁roug-h₂- / ruga

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