Word Origin Summary

Terre 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. terraLatininherited from
2. *terzāProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• tero

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• later

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• turmeric

  English · derived from

• Terre Haute

  English · derived from

• turmeryte

  Middle English · derived from

• terre

  Norman · inherited from

• Terreneuvian

  English · derived from

• Terrebonne Parish

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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