Word Origin Summary

Κογχύλιον is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• sconciglio

  Neapolitan · derived from

• conquilla

  Catalan · derived from

• koki

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• coquille

  English · borrowed from

• coquilha

  Portuguese · derived from

• conchylium

  Latin · derived from

• kokkel

  Dutch · borrowed from

• koki

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root