Word Origin Summary

Κυριακόν 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

• church

  English · derived from

• Ridderkerk

  Dutch · inherited from

• tchalitchi

  Chewa · borrowed from

• kereke

  Northern Sotho · borrowed from

• ikereke

  Phuthi · borrowed from

• tsjerke

  Western Frisian · derived from

• церковь

  Russian · derived from

• sios

  Tok Pisin · 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