Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• bateau

  English · borrowed from

• bato

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• batayo

  Moore · borrowed from

• batelo

  IDO · borrowed from

• bateau

  French · derived from

• bato

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

• bato

  Antillean Creole · derived from

• bato

  Mauritian Creole · 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