Word Origin Summary

*h₃reǵtós is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• recto

  Spanish · inherited from

• reg

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• abandonrett

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• recht

  Dutch · inherited from

• rectitudine

  Romanian · borrowed from

• rectitude

  French · derived from

• rätt

  Swedish · derived from

• ret

  Danish · 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