Etymograph

English

anamorphism

Anamorphism comes from Proto-Hellenic *aná ‘up, upon’, and perhaps goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- ‘on, onto’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂en-1‘on, onto’uncertain
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*aná1‘up, upon’reconstructed
  3. Englishtodayanamorphism1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English anamorphism

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂en-Wiktionary, English anamorphism‘on, onto’uncertain
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*anáWiktionary, English anamorphism‘up, upon’reconstructed
  3. EnglishtodayanamorphismWiktionary, English anamorphism

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- ‘on, onto’

on, end, along, upon, anterior, asunder, 6 more

through Proto-Hellenic *aná ‘up, upon’

ana, 3 more

Today it means

noun A generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “anamorphism”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- / anamorphism

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