The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sed-“to sit”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromὁδός“path, road, way; journey”
- English todayhodo-
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “path, road, way; journey”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). By surface analysis, hod- + -o-.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*sed- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.