The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*kerh₂-“to heat, burn, fire”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκεραμικός“potter's”
- English todayceramic
From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.