Word Origin Summary

Compaignon 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. *gahlaibōOld Frankishderived from
2. compāniōLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kompanjon

  Swedish · borrowed from

• kompanyon

  Indonesian · derived from

• kompanjong

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• companion

  English · derived from

• companion

  Romanian · borrowed from

• compaignon

  Middle French · inherited from

• kompanjon

  HBS · borrowed from

• kompanjong

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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