Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• magrekomenda

  Tagalog · derived from

• reproduktor

  Crimean Tatar · derived from

• refrain

  English · derived from

• re-

  Interlingua · derived from

• re-

  Portuguese · inherited from

• recatar

  Spanish · inherited from

• reconstruír

  Galician · derived from

• refrão

  Portuguese · 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