Word Origin Summary

Compagnon 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. compaignonFrenchinherited from
2. *gahlaibōOld Frankishderived from
3. compāniōLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kompanjon

  Swedish · borrowed from

• kompanyon

  Indonesian · derived from

• kompanjong

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• companion

  Romanian · borrowed from

• kompanjon

  HBS · borrowed from

• kompanjong

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• kompagnon

  Danish · borrowed from

• コンパニオン

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root