Word Origin Summary

Λευκός 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. *leukósProto-Hellenicderived from
2. *lewk-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• λευχαιμία

  Greek · derived from

• ロイシン

  Japanese · borrowed from

• lukemya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• leukocita

  Hungarian · derived from

• leucopus

  Latin · derived from

• Alicante

  Spanish · derived from

• leucophanite

  English · derived from

• белокровие

  Russian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root