Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• Ascothoracida

  Translingual · derived from

• ascaimícéit

  Irish · derived from

• Ascomycota

  Translingual · derived from

• ασκός

  Greek · inherited from

• ascus

  English · derived from

• asca

  Spanish · derived from

• askogon

  Polish · derived from

• ascococcus

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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