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Where does “paleoenvironment” come from?

paleoenvironment (English) comes from English paleo-, from Ancient Greek παλαιός, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

paleoenvironment (English): The past environment of an area during a given...

Definitions

  1. The past environment of an area during a given...

Ancestry of “paleoenvironment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpaleo-Old; ancient or primitive; Related to...
2Ancient Greekπαλαιόςold, aged; ancient, of times past; time-honoured,...
3Ancient Greek-ός—
4Proto-Hellenic*-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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