Word Origin Summary

*karu is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• caru

  Old English · inherited from

• Care Sunday

  English · inherited from

• kartag

  Cimbrian · derived from

• caure

  Yola · inherited from

• care

  English · inherited from

• Kalvraitag

  Cimbrian · derived from

• care

  Middle English · inherited from

• kara

  Old Saxon · inherited 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