Where does “lemnos” come from?
lemnos (Romanian) comes from Romanian lemn, from Latin līgnum, from English polygonum, from Ancient Greek πολύς, from Ancient Greek πόρος, from Ancient Greek πείρω, from Proto-Hellenic *péryō.
lemnos (Romanian): wooden; woody, ligneous, woodlike
Definitions
- wooden; woody, ligneous, woodlike
Ancestry of “lemnos”, step by step
lemnos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian lemn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | lemn | wood; timber |
| 2 | Latin | līgnum | firewood |
| 3 | English | polygonum | Any of many plants, of the family Polygonaceae,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πολύς | many, a lot of; neuter πολύ or πολλά as... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πόρος | a means of passage, passageway, way, opening;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πείρω | I pierce, run through; I cleave through |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *péryō | — |