Where does “Kevorkian” come from?
Kevorkian (English) comes from Armenian Գևորգյան, from Armenian Գևորգ, from Old Armenian Գէորգ, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος, from Ancient Greek γεωργός, from Ancient Greek γεω-, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Ancestry of “Kevorkian”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian | Գևորգյան | — |
| 2 | Armenian | Գևորգ | {{non-gloss definition|given name equivalent to... |
| 3 | Old Armenian | Գէորգ | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Γεώργιος | farmer, earth-worker |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γεωργός | tilling the ground; fertilizing; farmer |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | γεω- | earth; earth- |
| 7 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |