Word Origin Summary

Ἔργον 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. *wérgonProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. *wérǵomProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• 厄格

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ergometría

  Spanish · derived from

• ergonomie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• ergonomics

  English · derived from

• ergo-

  Polish · derived from

• erg

  Catalan · derived from

• 爾格

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ergal

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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