Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₁énterosProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. interiorLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• interiør

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• interior

  Romanian · borrowed from

• interieur

  Dutch · borrowed from

• interiør

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• interiööri

  Finnish · derived from

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