Word Origin Summary

Automobile is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. mōbilisLatinderived from
2. automobileFrenchborrowed from
3. *h₂ewProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
4. αὐτόςAncient Greekderived from
5. mobileFrenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• awto

  Cebuano · derived from

• mobìlka

  Alabama · borrowed from

• ʻokomopila

  Hawaiian · borrowed from

• hatëmopil

  Unami · borrowed from

• òdomobìl

  Louisiana Creole French · borrowed from

• automobilo

  IDO · borrowed 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