Word Origin Summary

Ῥίζα 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. *wréh₂dsProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. 𐀹𐀪𐀼Mycenaean Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• 레이스

  Korean · borrowed from

• ras

  Dutch · borrowed from

• raza

  Spanish · borrowed from

• Rhizopogon

  Translingual · derived from

• hydrorhiza

  English · derived from

• Rass

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• Rhizaria

  Translingual · derived from

• Rhizocarpeae

  Translingual · derived from

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