Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• mor

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• Mauritania

  Finnish · borrowed from

• Maure

  French · derived from

• Moor

  Dutch · derived from

• мавр

  Russian · derived from

• Mauritania

  Latin · borrowed from

• Murzyn

  Polish · derived from

• maurer

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived 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