Word Origin Summary

*kərdíyā 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

• cardioversion

  English · derived from

• kardiolog

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• kardiológia

  Hungarian · derived from

• καρδιά

  Greek · inherited from

• kardiovaskulaarinen

  Finnish · derived from

• cardio-

  English · derived from

• cardio-

  Catalan · derived from

• -cardia

  Italian · 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