Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• телеология

  Kazakh · derived from

• Teleophobie

  German · derived from

• teleophobia

  English · derived from

• telestial

  English · derived from

• telomere

  English · derived from

• teleologia

  Polish · derived from

• telomer

  Polish · derived from

• Teleologie

  German · 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