Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• toil

  English · derived from

• hart

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• wond

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Vrydag

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Amstelodamum

  Latin · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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