Word Origin Summary

Transfer 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. trānsferōLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• transzferál

  Hungarian · derived from

• transfer

  Dutch · borrowed from

• transfer

  Italian · borrowed from

• transferieren

  German · derived from

• transfer

  HBS · borrowed from

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