Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *manpayProto-Semiticderived from
2. 𐤌𐤀𐤐Phoenicianderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• mapa

  Galician · borrowed from

• mopp

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• מאַפּע

  YID · derived from

• naked apron

  English · derived from

• Napp

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• mapa

  Lower Sorbian · derived from

• map

  Welsh · borrowed from

• മാപ്പ്

  Malayalam · derived from

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