The story
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyh₂-?
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰyeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰyéh₂mn̥
- Proto-Hellenic*tsā́mə?
- Ancient Greekσῆμᾰ (sêmă)
- Ancient Greekσημαίνω (sēmaínō)
- Ancient Greekσημαντικός (sēmantikós)
- Frenchsémantique
- Englishsemanticsbf.?
- Englishsemantic
- English todaysemanticist
From semantic + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.