Where does “neomythology” come from?
neomythology (English) comes from English mythology, from Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία, from Ancient Greek μυθολογέω, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
neomythology (English): New mythology
Definitions
- New mythology
Ancestry of “neomythology”, step by step
neomythology traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mythology
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mythology | The collection of myths of a people, concerning... |
| 2 | Middle French | mythologie | — |
| 3 | Latin | mythologia | mythology |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογία | romance, fiction, legend; story-telling |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογέω | I tell tales |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via English Neo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Neo | An optimized German keyboard layout supporting nearly all Latin-based alphabets |
| 2 | English | neo- | new; contemporary; Having a structure, similar to... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | νέος | young; youthful; new, fresh |
| 4 | Latin | fēlēs | cat |
| 5 | Hungarian | fél | to fear, to be afraid of something; to fear... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | pide | tall |
| 7 | Finnish | pitää | to hold, grasp, grip; to keep, take; to like, be... |
| 8 | Proto-Finnic | pitädäk | to hold, to grasp; to keep |
| 9 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | pitä- | — |