Where does “newsgroup” come from?
Newsgroup derives from English group, from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, from Proto-Germanic kruppaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots related to turning or gathering.
newsgroup (English): A repository on a computer network where people...
Definitions
- A repository on a computer network where people...
Ancestry of “newsgroup”, step by step
newsgroup traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Group
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Group | A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another |
| 2 | French | groupe | group |
| 3 | Italian | gruppo | group, cluster, party, team, covey; pack; peloton |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | cruppo | — |
| 5 | Renaissance Latin | grupus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kruppaz | a body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | grewb- | to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |