Etymograph

English

podomere

Podomere comes from Ancient Greek μέρος ‘part, component, region’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- ‘to fall into thinking, remember, care for’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)mer-1‘to fall into thinking, remember, care for’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)méros1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*(h)méros1reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέρος1méros‘part, component, region’
  5. Englishtodaypodomere1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English podomere

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)mer-Wiktionary, English podomere‘to fall into thinking, remember, care for’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)mérosWiktionary, English podomerereconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*(h)mérosWiktionary, English podomerereconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέροςWiktionary, English podomereméros‘part, component, region’
  5. EnglishtodaypodomereWiktionary, English podomere

A compound of podo- + -mere

Proto-Indo-European *ped- ‘to walk, to step’

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Ancient Greek πούς ‘foot’

English podo-

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- ‘to fall into thinking, remember, care for’

memory, memorable, merit, memoir, martyr, mourn, memorandum, memorabilia, mora, memoria, 14 more

through Ancient Greek μέρος ‘part, component, region’

mer, 13 more

Today it means

noun A segment of a limb of an arthropod.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “podomere”. 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 *(s)mer- / podomere

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