Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• gay蜜

  Mandarin Chinese · derived from

• 게이

  Korean · borrowed from

• gėjus

  Lithuanian · borrowed from

• gey

  Scots · derived from

• gai

  Catalan · borrowed from

• gay

  Finnish · borrowed from

• گی

  FAS · borrowed from

• 鈣片

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

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