Where does “kth” come from?
I appreciate the task, but I need to flag a significant issue: the chain as presented appears corrupted or incomplete, making it impossible to write an accurate etymology sentence.
Problems:
1. The headword "kth" doesn't match "kilo-" or "k" in the chain
2. "χίλιοι" (khilioi, meaning "thousand") appears twice identically
3. The chain jumps illogically from Ancient Greek to Proto-Indo-European fragments (-ti, sem-, sem-) without clear connection
4. Proto-Indo-European sem- doesn't obviously connect to "thousand"
Could you verify:
- Is the headword "kilo" or "k" rather than "kth"?
- Should the chain show how Ancient Greek χίλιοι relates to the PIE roots?
- Are there missing intermediate steps or corrupted entries?
Once corrected,
kth (English): Occurring at position "k" in a sequence
Definitions
- Occurring at position "k" in a sequence
Ancestry of “kth”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | K | The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this... |
| 2 | English | kilo- | API; In the International System of Units and... |
| 3 | French | kilo- | kilo- |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | χίλιοι | thousand |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | *kʰehliyoi | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰéslom | thousand |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |