Word Origin Summary

Εὐαγγέλιον 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

• 福音

  Japanese · derived from

• इंजील

  Hindi · derived from

• évangile

  French · derived from

• evankeliumi

  Finnish · derived from

• evangelium

  Faroese · derived from

• gospel

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• inġil

  Maltese · derived from

• إنجيل

  Arabic · 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