Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ilayisense

  Zulu · borrowed from

• lisans

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• lasin

  Hausa · borrowed from

• laaesan

  Fiji Hindi · borrowed from

• lesen

  MSA · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root