Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *kʷer-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *kármaProto-Indo-Aryaninherited from
3. *kármaProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• กรรม

  Thai · borrowed from

• ផលិតកម្ម

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• តក្កកម្ម

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• ទណ្ឌកម្ម

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• ဇီဝကမ္မဗေဒ

  Burmese · borrowed from

• ກຳ

  Lao · borrowed from

• -ឧបនីយកម្ម

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• ၵၢမ်ႇ

  Shan · borrowed 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