Word Origin Summary

*wréh₂ds 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

• rot

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• 레이스

  Korean · borrowed from

• yrtti

  Finnish · derived from

• rot

  Swedish · inherited from

• raza

  Spanish · borrowed from

• Rhizopogon

  Translingual · derived from

• root

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• hydrorhiza

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root