Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• kamuflag

  MSA · borrowed from

• camouflage

  English · derived from

• muffle

  English · derived from

• カモフラージュ

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root