Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐭥𐭫𐭥𐭰𐭠𐭭Middle Persianderived from
2. GeōrgiaMedieval Latinborrowed from
3. ΓεώργιοςAncient Greekderived from
4. گرجFASderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• גאורגיה

  Hebrew · borrowed from

• 죠지아

  Korean · borrowed from

• 喬治亞

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ジョージア

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Georgia

  Danish · borrowed from

• Τζόρτζια

  Greek · borrowed from

• 조지아

  Korean · borrowed from

• Georgio

  Esperanto · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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