Etymology

Wikipediholic

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Today it means: Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia. Full definition →

English alcoholic ← Middle English alcofol ← Medieval Latin alcoho
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The story

  1. Proto-Polynesian*witi
  2. Hawaiianwiki
  3. Hawaiianwikiwiki
  4. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  7. Old Englishwebb
  8. Middle Englishweb
  9. Englishweb
  10. EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
  11. Englishwiki
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  13. Ancient Greekἐν (en)
  14. Ancient Greekἐν- (en-)
  15. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  16. Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
  17. Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
  18. Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
  19. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
  20. Ancient Greekἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
  21. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-
  22. Proto-Hellenic*pā́wits
  23. Ancient Greekπαῖς (paîs)
  24. Ancient Greekπαιδεύω (paideúō)
  25. Ancient Greekπαιδείᾱ (paideíā)
  26. Ancient Greekἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)
  27. New Latinencyclopaedīa
  28. Englishencyclopedia
  29. EnglishWikipedia
  30. Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
  31. Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
  32. Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
  33. Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
  34. Medieval Latinalcoho
  35. Middle Englishalcofol
  36. Englishalcohol
  37. Englishalcoholic
  38. English todayWikipediholic

From Wikipedi(a) + -holic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.