Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• gavman

  Tok Pisin · inherited from

• gwamnati

  Hausa · borrowed from

• goveremente

  Yola · derived from

• governement

  Middle English · borrowed from

• gorment

  Fiji Hindi · borrowed from

• government

  English · derived from

• gavman

  Bislama · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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