Word Origin Summary

Νῆσος 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. *(s)neh₂-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• νησί

  Greek · inherited from

• Nesopsar

  Translingual · derived from

• ⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ

  Coptic · borrowed from

• nesosilicaat

  Dutch · derived from

• Nesospiza

  Translingual · derived from

• nesosilicate

  English · derived from

• Macronesia

  English · derived from

• νήσος

  Greek · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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