The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνεός“new”
- Hungarian · borrowed fromneológ
- English todayNeolog
Borrowed from Hungarian neológ, a 19th-century coinage from Ancient Greek νεός (neós, “new”) + λόγος (lógos, “word; teaching, doctrine”), equivalent to English neologist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.