Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• attrakció

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• attraction

  English · derived from

• atraksi

  Indonesian · derived from

• atrakcja

  Polish · derived from

• attraction

  French · derived from

• attractie

  Dutch · derived from

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