Word Origin Summary

Ποταμός 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. *pónteh₁sProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Potamus

  Latin · borrowed from

• potamo-

  English · derived from

• potamography

  English · derived from

• ποταμός

  Greek · inherited from

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