Word Origin Summary

Χείρ 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. *ǵʰésōrProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *kʰéhərProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Chiroptera

  Translingual · derived from

• Chironectes

  Translingual · derived from

• chiropractor

  English · derived from

• cheiropterygium

  English · derived from

• Cheirogaleus

  Translingual · derived from

• seurgien

  Norman · derived from

• chiro-

  English · derived from

• хиралдық

  Kazakh · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root