Etymograph

English

teichoic

Teichoic comes from Ancient Greek τεῖχος ‘wall’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ‘to knead, form, fashion’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeyǵʰ-1‘to knead, form, fashion’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*téikʰos1reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτεῖχος2teîkhos‘wall’
  4. Englishtodayteichoic2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek τεῖχος
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English teichoic

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeyǵʰ-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek τεῖχος‘to knead, form, fashion’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*téikʰosWiktionary, Ancient Greek τεῖχοςreconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτεῖχοςWiktionary, English teichoicteîkhos‘wall’
  4. EnglishtodayteichoicWiktionary, English teichoic

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ‘to knead, form, fashion’

figure, lady, fiction, paradise, dairy, dough, faint, fictitious, dey, effigy, figment, feign, feint, 25 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to the teichoic acids or their derivatives

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “teichoic”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek τεῖχος. 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 *dʰeyǵʰ- / teichoic

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