Etymology of “System”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from English
Source language
English
Ancestry links
4
Descendants
7
Word Origin Summary
System 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
Descendants and Related Terms
- mini system
Portuguese · borrowed from
- system
French · derived from
- system
Welsh · borrowed from
- 시스템
Korean · borrowed from
- micro system
Portuguese · borrowed from
- システム
Japanese · borrowed from
- ṣiṣṭám
Phalura · derived 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