Word Origin Summary

Poinct 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. pointFrenchinherited from
2. punctumLatininherited from
3. punctusLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• poento

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• a poeng med

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• punto

  IDO · borrowed from

• poeng

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• poäng

  Swedish · borrowed from

• poén

  Hungarian · derived from

• punt

  Dutch · derived from

• à poeng med

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

What You Can Explore

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