Where does “dysphagia” come from?
Dysphagia derives from Ancient Greek dys- combined with -φαγία, from φαγεῖν meaning to eat, traced through ἔφαγον and ἔδω to Proto-Indo-European h₁ed- meaning to eat.
dysphagia (English): Difficulty in swallowing
Ancestry of “dysphagia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | dys- | bad |
| 2 | New Latin | dys- | Used to convey the idea of being difficult,... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δῠσ- | bad, unfortunate |
| 4 | Latin | calculāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | calculus | diminutive of calx; pebble, stone; reckoning,... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “dysphagia”