English
taxis
Taxis comes from Ancient Greek τάξις ‘arrangement, order’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to order, to establish, to rule’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tat͏̌t͏̌ōreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτᾰ́σσω‘I arrange”, “I order’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEτάξιςtáxis‘arrangement, order’
- Englishtodaytaxis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to order, to establish, to rule’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tat͏̌t͏̌ōreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτᾰ́σσω‘I arrange”, “I order’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEτάξιςtáxis‘arrangement, order’
- Englishtodaytaxis
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to order, to establish, to rule’
contact, taste, integrity, integrate, contingent, tangible, attain, tame, contiguous, tangent, tactile, contagion, tact, talon, contaminate, taxonomy, talus, thwack, 29 more
through Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
Today it means
noun The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- / taxis