Word Origin Summary

Super 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. *superProto-Italicinherited from
2. *upérProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
3. superLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• super

  Czech · borrowed from

• supr

  Czech · derived from

• süper

  Turkish · borrowed from

• super

  Romanian · borrowed from

• süpermarket

  Turkish · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root