The story
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*léǵ-e-ti
- Proto-Hellenic*légō
- Ancient Greekλέγω (légō)
- Ancient Greekλέξῐς (léxĭs)
- Ancient Greekλεξῐκός (lexĭkós)
- Englishlexico-
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
- Englishlexicography
- English todaylexicographic
From lexicography + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.