Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ransack

  English · inherited from

• ransak

  Cebuano · derived from

• ramshackle

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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