Word Origin Summary

-karmma is attested in Old Khmer. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kʷer-Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *kármaProto-Indo-Aryaninherited from
3. कर्मन्Sanskritborrowed from
4. *kármaProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from

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