Word Origin Summary

𐤀 is attested in Phoenician. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• alfabetikus

  Hungarian · derived from

• a-infinitiv

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ალფა

  Georgian · derived from

• alfa

  Finnish · derived from

• alfa

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• άλφα

  Greek · inherited from

• alfo

  Esperanto · derived from

• ܐ

  Classical Syriac · derived 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