Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. bascatAnglo-Normanborrowed from
2. bascaudaLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• basged

  Welsh · borrowed from

• basket

  Dutch · borrowed from

• ibhasikithi

  Northern Ndebele · borrowed from

• basket

  Tok Pisin · derived from

• баскет

  Macedonian · derived from

• libhasikidi

  Swazi · borrowed from

• basket

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• baskaate

  Yola · inherited 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