Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• somnambule

  French · derived from

• somnolență

  Romanian · borrowed from

• somey

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• sium

  Friulian · inherited from

• somnolencia

  Spanish · derived from

• somnu

  Aromanian · inherited from

• sueñu

  Asturian · inherited from

• sommeil

  French · 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