Word Origin Summary

Ψυχή is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• psykedelisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• psychology

  English · derived from

• ⲯⲩⲭⲏ

  Coptic · borrowed from

• psikoloji

  Turkish · borrowed from

• психоз

  Ukrainian · derived from

• psychologie

  Dutch · derived from

• psique

  Catalan · derived from

• Psyche

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root