Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ताक

  Hindi · inherited from

• തർക്കം

  Malayalam · borrowed from

• ตรรกะ

  Thai · borrowed from

• तर्क

  Sanskrit · inherited from

• តក្ក

  Central Khmer · derived from

• terka

  Indonesian · derived from

• ตรรกวิบัติ

  Thai · derived from

• ตรรกศาสตร์

  Thai · 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