Word Origin Summary

*bʰéreti is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• bara

  Swedish · inherited from

• bære

  Danish · derived from

• berti

  Lithuanian · inherited from

• Pherecydes

  English · derived from

• peripheria

  Latin · borrowed from

• feromon

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• ablativisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• брать

  Russian · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root