Word Origin Summary

*pro- 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

• pro-

  Italian · derived from

• proosit

  Estonian · derived from

• fram

  Swedish · derived from

• opprobrium

  English · derived from

• Prathama

  English · borrowed from

• fram

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• abortus provocatus

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• framilla

  Finnish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root