Word Origin Summary

Parliament 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. parliamentAnglo-Normanderived from
2. parlementMiddle Englishinherited from
3. -mentumLatinderived from
4. parlementFrenchderived from
5. *-mn̥teh₂Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• parlamentti

  Finnish · borrowed from

• ipalamente

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• ပါလီမန်

  Burmese · borrowed from

• parlament

  Swedish · borrowed from

• palamen

  Tok Pisin · derived from

• iphalamende

  Zulu · borrowed from

• parlament

  Hungarian · derived from

• parlimen

  MSA · borrowed from

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