Word Origin Summary

Πλέκω 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. *pleḱ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• plecto

  Latin · derived from

• Plecoptera

  Translingual · derived from

• septuplex

  English · derived from

• πλέκω

  Greek · inherited from

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