Word Origin Summary

Χολή 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. *kʰolā́Proto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• còlera

  Catalan · derived from

• kolesterol

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• chole-

  Polish · derived from

• cholesterolum

  Latin · derived from

• colúria

  Catalan · derived from

• kolerisk

  Swedish · derived from

• cholaemia

  English · derived from

• chole-

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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