Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *dʰǵʰomósProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *homosProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• humo

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• transhumer

  French · borrowed from

• transumância

  Portuguese · derived from

• húmas

  Irish · borrowed from

• transumare

  Italian · derived from

• humus

  Dutch · borrowed from

• trashumancia

  Spanish · derived from

• trashumar

  Spanish · 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