logorrhea

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
3. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
4. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
5. Englishlogo-
6. Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
7. Proto-Indo-European*srew-
8. Proto-Indo-European*sréweti
9. Proto-Hellenic*hréwō
10. Ancient Greekῥέω (rhéō)
11. Ancient Greekῥοία (rhoía)
12. English todaylogorrhea

From logo- (prefix meaning ‘word; speech’) + -rrhea (suffix meaning ‘flowing’), probably modelled after verbal diarrhea. logo- is derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word; speech; utterance”) (from λέγω (légō, “to say, speak; to arrange; to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)), while -rrhea is from ῥοία (rhoía, “a flow, flux”) (from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”)).

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