Word Origin Summary

Μύκης 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. *mew-k-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -mycete

  English · borrowed from

• mycetism

  English · derived from

• ascaimícéit

  Irish · derived from

• Mycena

  Translingual · derived from

• -myces

  Translingual · derived from

• микоплазма

  Kazakh · derived from

• mycète

  French · borrowed from

• micosis

  Spanish · derived from

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