The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
- Proto-Hellenic*ónomə
- Ancient Greekὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷey-
- Proto-Hellenic*kʷoiwéyō
- Ancient Greekποιέω (poiéō)
- Ancient Greekὀνομᾰτοποιός (onomătopoiós)
- Ancient Greekὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā)
- Latinonomatopoeïa
- English todayonomatopoeia
Borrowed from Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoiéō, “to coin names”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, to do, to produce”). By surface analysis, onomato- + -poeia.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀνοματοποιία all →
onomatopoesyonomatopoietic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.