Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *apProto-Italicinherited from
2. *h₂epóProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ab

  Occitan · inherited from

• abant

  Basque · borrowed from

• abortere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• abolisjonistisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• arace

  English · derived from

• ab

  Danish · derived from

• aunz

  Romansch · derived from

• absolutt flertall

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root