Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• lata

  Galician · derived from

• slat

  Irish · inherited from

• slat

  Scottish Gaelic · inherited from

• Welsh yard

  English · borrowed from

• llath

  Welsh · inherited 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