Word Origin Summary

*h₂reh₁- 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

• reason

  English · derived from

• rheswm

  Welsh · borrowed from

• aretegenic

  English · derived from

• racionální

  Czech · derived from

• reor

  Latin · derived from

• arete

  English · derived from

• ἀρετή

  Ancient Greek · derived from

• aretaic

  English · derived 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