The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*temh₁-“to cut”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromτόμος“section, slice”
- English todaytomo-
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, slice”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτόμος all →
tometomos-tomous
Proto-Indo-European*temh₁- all →
temperancetempestuousanatomizeatomy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.