Word Origin Summary

Σπέρμα 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. *spérmn̥Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• spermatozoo

  Esperanto · derived from

• spermie

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• spermophyte

  English · derived from

• boneseed

  English · derived from

• สเปิร์ม

  Thai · borrowed from

• spermo

  Esperanto · derived from

• aspermia

  Polish · derived from

• sperma

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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