Word Origin Summary

Μηχανή 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. *megʰ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• mechanism

  English · derived from

• mechanizmas

  Lithuanian · derived from

• メカニズム

  Japanese · borrowed from

• ܡܐܟܢܐ

  Classical Syriac · borrowed from

• mecanografía

  Spanish · derived from

• ⲙⲏⲭⲁⲛⲏ

  Coptic · borrowed from

• mecanógrafo

  Spanish · derived from

• mecanisme

  Catalan · derived from

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