Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• thế giới quan

  Vietnamese · derived from

• мировоззрение

  Russian · derived from

• weltanschauung

  English · borrowed from

• κοσμοθεωρία

  Greek · derived from

• weltanschauung

  Romanian · borrowed from

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