Word Origin Summary

Στόμα 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. *stomn̥Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Deuterostomia

  Translingual · derived from

• stoma

  English · borrowed from

• stomatologia

  Polish · derived from

• phyllostome

  English · derived from

• -stóm

  Irish · derived from

• -stome

  English · derived from

• estoma

  Catalan · derived from

• τθούμα

  Tsakonian · inherited from

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