Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• імпровізація

  Ukrainian · borrowed from

• improvizație

  Romanian · borrowed from

• emprovizasyon

  Turkish · borrowed from

• improvizáció

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• Improvisatioun

  Luxembourgish · derived from

• improwizacja

  Polish · borrowed from

• improvisation

  English · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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