Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *gʰebʰ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• cephalous

  English · derived from

• cefálico

  Spanish · borrowed from

• cefalo-

  Italian · derived from

• Cephalotaxus

  Translingual · derived from

• cefalópodo

  Spanish · derived from

• Cephalaspis

  Translingual · derived from

• -cephaly

  English · derived from

• Tatankacephalus

  Translingual · derived from

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