The story
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂uros
- Ancient Greekπαῦρος (paûros)
- Proto-Indo-European*me
- Proto-Indo-European*meth₂?
- Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
- Ancient Greekμετα- (meta-)
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷelH-
- Proto-Hellenic*gʷəlnō
- Ancient Greekβάλλω (bállō)
- Ancient Greekμεταβάλλω (metabállō)
- Ancient Greekμετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ)
- Englishmetabolism
- English todaypaurometabolism
From Ancient Greek παῦρος (paûros, “small, little”) + English metabolism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.