Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. reveweMiddle Englishinherited from
2. revideōLatinderived from
3. reveueFrenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• revuar

  IDO · borrowed from

• Ru@Palm-ThumbAcross-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross Ru@Palm-ThumbAcrossFingerDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross

  American Sign Language · derived from

• reviu

  Indonesian · borrowed from

• レビュー

  Japanese · borrowed from

• ribyu

  Tagalog · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root