Word Origin Summary

Delaware is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Déláwee hahoodzo

  Navajo · derived from

• delaware

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• Ντέλαγουερ

  Greek · borrowed from

• 델라웨어

  Korean · borrowed from

• 델러웨어

  Korean · borrowed from

• Delaware

  Danish · borrowed from

• Delaware

  Finnish · borrowed from

• デラウェア

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root