Etymology

megayear

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Today it means: A million years: a thousand thousand years. Full definition →

English year ← Middle English yeer ← Old English ġēar
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mégas
  3. Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
  4. Englishmega-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-der.?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*yóh₁r̥
  7. Proto-Germanic*jērą
  8. Proto-West Germanic*jār
  9. Old Englishġēar
  10. Middle Englishyeer
  11. Englishyear
  12. English todaymegayear

From mega- + year.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.