The story
- Ancient Greekὗ (hû)
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*wéydos
- Proto-Hellenic*wéidos
- Ancient Greekεἶδος (eîdos)
- Ancient Greekῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs)
- Latinhȳoīdēs
- Frenchhyoïde
- English todayhyoid
Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, “shaped like the letter "υ"”), from ὖ (û, “the Greek letter upsilon”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.