Etymograph

English

doru

Doru comes from Ancient Greek δόρυ ‘wood, tree, stem’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dóru1‘tree’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*dóru1‘tree’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEδόρυ2dóru‘wood, tree, stem’
  4. Englishtodaydoru2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek δόρυ
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English doru

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dóruWiktionary, Ancient Greek δόρυ‘tree’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*dóruWiktionary, Ancient Greek δόρυ‘tree’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEδόρυWiktionary, English dorudóru‘wood, tree, stem’
  4. EnglishtodaydoruWiktionary, English doru

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dóru ‘tree’

tree, trough, dinghy, dendritic, druid, larch, dendrite, 4 more

through Ancient Greek δόρυ ‘wood, tree, stem’

dory, 1 more

Today it means

noun —

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “doru”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek δόρυ. 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 *dóru / doru

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