Word Origin Summary

*tpelH- 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

• ᬧᬸᬭᬷ

  Balinese · derived from

• पुर्

  Sanskrit · inherited from

• puri

  English · derived from

• πολιορκητικός

  Greek · inherited from

• purī

  Javanese · derived from

• poliorcetics

  English · derived from

• ꦥꦸꦫꦶ

  Javanese · inherited from

• necropolis

  English · 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