Word Origin Summary

𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 is attested in Old Persian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *mártyahProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from
2. *mártyasProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from
3. *mer-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• manticore

  English · derived from

• Mert

  Turkish · derived from

• মরদ

  Bengali · derived from

• mantícora

  Spanish · derived from

• mərd

  AZE · derived from

• namert

  Turkish · derived from

• マンティコア

  Japanese · borrowed from

• মতা

  Assamese · derived from

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