Word Origin Summary

*dáḱru- 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

• lacus lacrimalis

  Translingual · derived from

• larmo

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• lacrimal

  Portuguese · derived from

• tåre

  Danish · derived from

• lacrymogène

  French · derived from

• lacrima

  Italian · inherited from

• lacrimogenous

  English · derived from

• lagrema

  Old Spanish · inherited from

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