Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. noirFrenchinherited from
2. nigrumLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• nwar

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

• noir

  English · borrowed from

• nwa

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• transmisogynoir

  English · derived from

• misogynoir

  English · derived from

• nwar

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• noir

  French · inherited from

• nwa

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root