Where does “σκυταλισμός” come from?

σκυταλισμός (Ancient Greek) comes from Ancient Greek -ισμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

σκυταλισμός (Ancient Greek): clubbing, bludgeoning, cudgeling, the act or an instance of beating someone or something with a club (σκυτάλη), especially the Scytalism, the mass clubbing of wealthy Argives in 370BC

Definitions

  1. clubbing, bludgeoning, cudgeling, the act or an instance of beating someone or something with a club (σκυτάλη), especially the Scytalism, the mass clubbing of wealthy Argives in 370BC

Ancestry of “σκυταλισμός”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greek-ισμόςForms abstract nouns
2Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
3Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems

Words derived from “σκυταλισμός”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós →Every word from Ancient Greek -μός →Every word from Ancient Greek -ισμός →