Word Origin Summary

*h₂élyos 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

• allear

  Galician · derived from

• ail

  Welsh · inherited from

• 알레르기

  Korean · borrowed from

• allergy

  English · derived from

• ἄλλος

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• alien

  Dutch · borrowed from

• allochthonous

  English · derived from

• allochtone

  French · 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