Word Origin Summary

伐木累 is attested in Mandarin Chinese. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. familyEnglishborrowed from
2. *fameljāProto-Italicinherited from
3. *dʰh₁-m-eló-mProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
4. famulOld Latinderived from
5. famelOscanderived from
6. familiaLatinderived from
7. *famelosProto-Italicderived from

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