Word Origin Summary

*serḱ- 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

• sarcio

  Latin · derived from

• sarcină

  Romanian · inherited from

• sarcina

  Latin · derived from

• herkogamy

  English · derived from

• sartsinã

  Aromanian · inherited from

• ἕρκος

  Ancient Greek · derived from

• πολιορκητικός

  Greek · inherited from

• poliorcetics

  English · 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