Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• Brachycera

  Translingual · derived from

• bra

  Cebuano · derived from

• bra

  Afrikaans · borrowed from

• Brachyura

  Translingual · derived from

• Brachygastra

  Translingual · derived from

• brachyrhynchos

  Latin · derived from

• brachytherapy

  English · derived from

• βραχύς

  Ancient Greek · 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