Word Origin Summary

Gouverneur 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. κυβερνήτηςAncient Greekderived from
2. gouvreneurFrenchinherited from
3. gouverneurMiddle Frenchinherited from
4. gubernatorLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• guvernør

  Danish · borrowed from

• guvernør

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• guvernør

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• guvernor

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Gouverneur

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• guvernér

  Slovak · derived from

• gʋvɛrneere

  Moore · borrowed from

• guvernér

  Czech · borrowed from

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