Word Origin Summary

Han is attested in Samoan Plantation Pidgin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *handuzProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. handEnglishderived from
3. hundEnglishinherited from
4. handEnglishinherited from
5. hondMiddle Englishinherited from
6. *handuProto-West Germanicinherited from

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