Etymology of “Περί”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Ancient Greek
Source language
Ancient Greek
Ancestry links
1
Descendants
16
Word Origin Summary
Περί is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- pri
Esperanto · borrowed from
- Perikambium
German · derived from
- perichezio
Italian · derived from
- pri
IDO · derived from
- periskop
Danish · derived from
- peri-
English · derived from
- periosteum
English · derived from
- perichaetium
English · derived from
What You Can Explore
- 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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- 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root