Etymograph

English

azole

Azole comes from French azote ‘nitrogen’, from Ancient Greek ζῶ ‘to live’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃weti1‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*gʷyṓw-ō1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*d͏̌ṓwō1‘to live’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζώω1zṓō‘Epic and Ionic form of ζῶ’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶ1zô‘to live’
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζωή1zōḗ
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentazote1‘nitrogen’
  8. English1500–presentazote1
  9. Englishtodayazole1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English azole

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷíh₃wetiWiktionary, English azole‘to live, to be alive’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*gʷyṓw-ōWiktionary, English azolereconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*d͏̌ṓwōWiktionary, English azole‘to live’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζώωWiktionary, English azolezṓō‘Epic and Ionic form of ζῶ’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶWiktionary, English azolezô‘to live’
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζωήWiktionary, English azolezōḗ
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentazoteWiktionary, English azole‘nitrogen’
  8. English1500–presentazoteWiktionary, English azole
  9. EnglishtodayazoleWiktionary, English azole

A compound of azo- + -ole

Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti ‘to live, to be alive’

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Ancient Greek ζῶ ‘to live’

Ancient Greek ζωή

French azote ‘nitrogen’

English azote ‘nitrogen’

English azo-

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ‘to live’

kidney, vitamin, biology, hygiene, viable, revive, vitality, zodiac, anaerobic, quicken, quicksilver, quickness, biogenesis, wyvern, 56 more

through Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós ‘alive, living’

quick, couch, vive, 32 more

through Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti ‘to live, to be alive’

vital, vivid, vivacious, convivial, vivacity, 21 more

through Ancient Greek ζωή

zoe, 11 more

Today it means

noun Any of a class of five-membered unsaturated heterocycles having three carbon atoms, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “azole”. 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 *gʷíh₃weti / azole

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