Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ĥoto

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• iota

  Catalan · derived from

• jota

  Dutch · derived from

• jodd

  Faroese · derived from

• jota

  Polish · derived from

• iota

  Galician · borrowed from

• iota

  French · borrowed from

• jot and tittle

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root