Where does “discography” come from?
I need to flag a critical issue with this etymology chain: it contains logical problems that make it impossible to write an accurate sentence. The chain shows: - English disc → French disque → Latin discus → Ancient Greek γράφω This breaks down because: 1. **γράφω (graphō) means "to write,"** not "disk" — it's semantically unrelated to the preceding terms 2. The chain then continues to Proto-Indo-European roots (gerebh-, ger-, ger-) that don't connect to Greek γράφω 3. **Discography** is actually a compound of *disco-* (from discus) + *-graphy* (from γράφω), but this chain doesn't show that structure The chain as presented appears corrupted or incomplete. A correct etymology would need to show: - How Latin *discus* connects to Ancient Greek γ
discography (English): Complete collection of the releases of a musical...
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- Complete collection of the releases of a musical...
Ancestry of “discography”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | disco | Clipping of discotheque., a nightclub for... |
| 2 | English | discovery | Something discovered; The discovering of new... |
| 3 | English | Discover | Discover Card, a brand of credit card |
| 4 | Middle English | discoveren | — |
| 5 | Old French | descovrir | to uncover, to reveal; to discover |
| 6 | Latin | discoperīre | — |
| 7 | Latin | discooperiō | to expose, lay bare |
| 8 | Latin | cooperiō | to cover wholly or over, overwhelm, clothe |
| 9 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |