Word Origin Summary

*génetis 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

• genesa

  Indonesian · derived from

• Genesis

  Dutch · derived from

• Genesis

  English · derived from

• génesis

  Spanish · derived from

• geneza

  Polish · derived from

• -gineas

  Irish · derived from

• abiogenese

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -génesis

  Spanish · derived 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