Word Origin Summary

Πολύς 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. *polh₁úsProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• polydactyl

  English · borrowed from

• полимер

  Kazakh · derived from

• polylectic

  English · derived from

• πολύς

  Greek · inherited from

• poli-

  Polish · derived from

• Polycyttaria

  Translingual · derived from

• polymer

  English · derived from

• poly-

  Dutch · derived from

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