Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐤀Phoenicianborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• a-infinitiv

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• a-

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• avizandum

  English · derived from

• a prima vista

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• alínea

  Portuguese · derived from

• a

  Slovak · derived from

• a battuta

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• hari

  Papiamento · derived 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