typhus

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dʰewbʰ-
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromτῦφος“fever, stupor”
3. New Latin · derived fromtyphus
4. English todaytyphus

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-, extended form of *dʰew- (“scatter like dust”).

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