Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. martellusLatininherited from
2. marculusLatininherited from
3. *melh₂tlo-Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
4. martielloOld Spanishinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• martilyo

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• martíyo

  Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec · borrowed from

• ma̱rtiyo

  Ayutla Mixtec · borrowed from

• moltìyu’úna

  Taos · derived from

• martiyu

  Sinicahua Mixtec · borrowed from

• martilyo

  Bikol Central · borrowed from

• martillo

  Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl · borrowed from

• martiy

  Zoogocho Zapotec · borrowed from

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