Word Origin Summary

*h₂enk- 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

• áncora

  Galician · derived from

• ankylosaurus

  English · derived from

• dofuthracair

  Irish · derived from

• ankla

  Hiligaynon · derived from

• 앵커

  Korean · borrowed from

• ancaire

  Irish · derived from

• ancre

  Norman · derived from

• якір

  Ukrainian · derived 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