Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. avantgardeFrenchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• avant-garde

  English · borrowed from

• avantgarde

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• abangoardia

  Basque · borrowed from

• αβανγκάρντ

  Greek · borrowed from

• avantgardgisme

  Norman · derived from

• avangart

  Turkish · borrowed from

• avantgarde

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• avantgarde

  Danish · borrowed from

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