Word Origin Summary

*sm̥-meh₁lom 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

• sincère

  French · derived from

• semelfactive

  English · derived from

• semel

  Latin · derived from

• sincer

  Romanian · borrowed from

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