Etymograph

English

thymus

Thymus comes from New Latin thymus ‘a type of wart’, from Ancient Greek θύμος ‘warty excrescence, thymus gland’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘to smoke, raise dust’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-‘to smoke, raise dust’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEθύμοςthúmos‘warty excrescence, thymus gland’
  3. New Latinc. 1500–1900thymus‘a type of wart’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2019thymus

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-‘to smoke, raise dust’reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEθύμοςthúmos‘warty excrescence, thymus gland’
  3. New Latinc. 1500–1900thymus‘a type of wart’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2019thymus

Earliest quotation: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants: “For a very long time the role of the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘to smoke, raise dust’

down, steam, dye, funk, dew, dun, dune, duvet, dag, fume, fumigation, typhon, obfuscate, 27 more

Today it means

noun —

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- / thymus

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