Word Origin Summary

Automobile 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

• aŭtomobilo

  Esperanto · derived from

• awto

  Cebuano · derived from

• mobìlka

  Alabama · borrowed from

• bil

  Elfdalian · derived from

• oto

  Indonesian · derived from

• ʻokomopila

  Hawaiian · borrowed from

• Auto

  German · derived from

• mobil

  Indonesian · 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