The story
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷelH-
- Ancient Greekβέλεμνον (bélemnon)
- English todaybelemnite
From Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon, “dart, arrow”) + English -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
belemnite
Today it means: Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish. Full definition →
Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon) ← Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-