Word Origin Summary

Ἐν 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. *h₁énProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• enzoötisch

  Dutch · borrowed from

• enoftalmo

  Italian · derived from

• enhypostasia

  English · derived from

• Encephala

  Translingual · derived from

• Engramm

  German · derived from

• ensím

  Icelandic · derived from

• engram

  English · derived from

• enderon

  English · derived from

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