Word Origin Summary

*per- 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

• プライス

  Japanese · borrowed from

• fern

  German · inherited from

• prix fixe

  English · borrowed from

• krigføring

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• prijs

  Dutch · derived from

• fraist

  English · derived from

• interprète

  French · borrowed from

• periculum

  Latin · 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