Word Origin Summary

Ἄρκτος 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. *h₂ŕ̥tḱosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• အန္တာတိက

  Burmese · borrowed from

• arctophile

  English · derived from

• แอนตาร์กติกา

  Thai · borrowed from

• Arctictis

  Translingual · derived from

• Antarctica

  English · derived from

• Arctostaphylos

  Translingual · derived from

• άρκτος

  Greek · borrowed from

• Antaktika

  Swahili · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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