Word Origin Summary

Cabbage is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. cabocheMiddle Englishinherited from
2. *káput-Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
3. caputLatinderived from
4. cabocheAnglo-Normanborrowed from
5. *kaputProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kaabij

  Fiji Hindi · borrowed from

• ikhapetshu

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• kabichi

  Swahili · borrowed from

• ikhaphetshu

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• kabij

  Abenaki · borrowed from

• kāpisi

  Tonga · borrowed from

• kabisi

  Sranan Tongo · derived from

• キャベツ

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root