Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. τεχνολογίαAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• zaitech

  English · borrowed from

• iteknoloji

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• technológia

  Hungarian · derived from

• teknologi

  Indonesian · derived from

• テクノロジー

  Japanese · borrowed from

• teknolojia

  Swahili · borrowed from

• technologie

  Dutch · borrowed from

• tegnologie

  Afrikaans · derived from

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