Word Origin Summary

*h₂ḱrós 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

• aire

  French · inherited from

• acrophonie

  French · derived from

• acromion

  English · derived from

• Acroceraunian

  English · derived from

• aicher

  Old Irish · derived from

• gear

  Manx · derived from

• alegar

  English · derived from

• acryl

  Dutch · 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