Word Origin Summary

Instrument 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

• instrument

  Dutch · derived from

• instrument

  Middle English · borrowed from

• instrument

  English · derived from

• enstrüman

  Turkish · borrowed from

• instrument

  French · derived from

• instrument

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root