Word Origin Summary

Ἕλιξ 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. *welH-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• helicóptero

  Galician · derived from

• helix

  Dutch · derived from

• helikopter

  Cebuano · derived from

• Helikopter

  German · derived from

• helicóptero

  Portuguese · derived from

• helikoptero

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• helikso

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• helix

  Latin · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root