Where does “palimpsest” come from?
palimpsest (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος, from Ancient Greek πάλιν, from Ancient Greek πάλις, from Proto-Indo-European kʷl̥His, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- — to turn.
palimpsest (Serbo-Croatian): palimpsest
Ancestry of “palimpsest”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | παλίμψηστος | scratched or scraped again |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | πάλιν | back, backwards; again, once more, anew; again,... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | πάλις | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷl̥His | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |