köken: Deverbal from injertar or semi-learned borrowing from Latin īnsertus (literally “inserted”), later "grafted" by confusion between homonymous īnserō (“to insert”) (perfect passive participle īnsertus) and īnserō (“to graft”) (perfect passive participle īnsitus). Compare also enjerto and inserto, from the same source.
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek μεταμόσχευσις (metamóskheusis) in the horticultural sense, with semantic loan from English transplantation in the surgical sense. By surface analysis, μεταμοσχεύω (metamoschévo) + -ση (-si).
grafting (the act, art, or process of inserting grafts) · graft (a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree) · graft (a branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot)