Word Origin Summary

Ἵππος 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

1. *h₁éḱwosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *íkkʷosProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hipódromo

  Spanish · borrowed from

• hipodromo

  Cebuano · derived from

• hippogriff

  English · derived from

• άλογο

  Greek · derived from

• hippodrome

  French · derived from

• hipódromo

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• Hippophae

  Translingual · derived from

• ippo-

  Italian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root