Word Origin Summary

Monde 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. 𐌌𐌖𐌈Etruscanderived from
2. mundusLatinborrowed from
3. *mh₂nd-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
4. *muh₂-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• monde

  Plateau Haitian Creole · inherited from

• lemond

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• moun

  Antillean Creole · derived from

• moune

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

• monde

  English · derived from

• moun

  Plateau Haitian Creole · inherited from

• monn

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

• mondo

  Esperanto · derived from

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