Word Origin Summary

*(s)kelh₁- is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• skeleton

  English · derived from

• Scleractinia

  Translingual · derived from

• skelet

  Afrikaans · derived from

• scleroderma

  English · derived from

• hellig

  German · derived from

• スケルトン

  Japanese · borrowed from

• σκληρός

  Greek · inherited from

• scheleton

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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