The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Ancient Greekἐν (en)
- Proto-Indo-European*deh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₂mos
- Proto-Hellenic*dā́mos
- Ancient Greekδῆμος (dêmos)
- English todayendemic
From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + -ic. Possibly via Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique. By surface analysis, en- + demic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἐν all →
engramenanthesisencephalosendermicenderonenhypostasiaholenmerism
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.