Word Origin Summary

كلاس is attested in Gulf Arabic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. classEnglishderived from
2. classisLatinderived from
3. classeFrenchderived from
4. *klāssisProto-Italicinherited from
5. classeMiddle Frenchborrowed from
6. *kelh₁-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

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