Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• Nephrozoa

  Translingual · derived from

• neifri-

  Irish · derived from

• nefrologie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• metanefro

  Italian · derived from

• νεφρός

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• néphrologie

  French · derived from

• nephropid

  English · derived from

• perinefrio

  Italian · 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