Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• obsidiaan

  Dutch · derived from

• obsidianus

  Latin · derived from

• obszidián

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• obsidian

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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