Word Origin Summary

*én 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

• we

  Polish · inherited from

• w

  Polish · inherited from

• i

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• en

  IDO · derived from

• pling i bollen

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited 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