Where does “mitoloji” come from?
mitoloji (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish میتولوژی, from French mythologie, from Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία, from Ancient Greek μυθολογέω, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
mitoloji (Turkish): mythology (collection and study of myths)
Definitions
- mythology (collection and study of myths)
Ancestry of “mitoloji”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | میتولوژی | — |
| 2 | French | mythologie | mythology |
| 3 | Middle French | mythologie | — |
| 4 | Latin | mythologia | mythology |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογία | romance, fiction, legend; story-telling |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογέω | I tell tales |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |