Word Origin Summary

Amphetamine 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

• amfetamin

  Czech · borrowed from

• amfetamiin

  Estonian · borrowed from

• amfetamina

  Indonesian · derived from

• амфетамин

  Kazakh · derived from

• amfetamin

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• amfetamin

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• Amphetamin

  German · borrowed from

• amfetamine

  Dutch · borrowed from

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