Word Origin Summary

Ὄρνις 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. *h₃érōProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *órn-īk-s ~ *órn-īkʷʰ-Proto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• όρνιθα

  Greek · derived from

• ornitorinc

  Romanian · derived from

• Sayornis

  Translingual · derived from

• Snowornis

  Translingual · derived from

• -ornis

  Translingual · derived from

• Ornithopoda

  Translingual · derived from

• Ornithomimus

  Translingual · derived from

• אורניתולוגיה

  Hebrew · derived from

What You Can Explore

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