Where does “Dipnoi” come from?

Dipnoi (Translingual) comes from Ancient Greek πνοή, from Ancient Greek -ή, from Ancient Greek -ᾱ, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

Dipnoi (Translingual): the lungfishes and their extinct relatives

Definitions

  1. the lungfishes and their extinct relatives

Ancestry of “Dipnoi”, step by step

Dipnoi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ancient Greek πνοή

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekπνοήbreath
2Ancient Greek-ήsuffix of feminine nouns in the [[Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension
3Ancient Greek-ᾱnominal suffix
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Ancient Greek δίς

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekδίςtwice, doubly, again
2Proto-Indo-Europeandwístwice, doubly; in two
3Proto-Indo-Europeandwóh₁two

Words derived from “Dipnoi”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Ancient Greek -ή →Every word from Ancient Greek -ᾱ →