Word Origin Summary

Ἱεροσόλυμα 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

• Hierosolyma

  Latin · derived from

• Hierosolyma

  English · derived from

• Jerusalem

  Finnish · derived from

• Iarúsailéim

  Irish · derived from

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