Word Origin Summary

Νεφρός 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. *nekʷʰrósProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. *negʷʰrósProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Nephrozoa

  Translingual · derived from

• neifri-

  Irish · derived from

• nefrologie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• metanefro

  Italian · derived from

• néphrologie

  French · derived from

• nephropid

  English · derived from

• perinefrio

  Italian · derived from

• nephron

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root