Word Origin Summary

Try 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. 𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽Gothicderived from
2. trierAnglo-Normanderived from
3. trienMiddle Englishinherited from
4. *teranąProto-West Germanicderived from
5. *triareVulgar Latinderived from
6. *der-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
7. trierFrenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• tray

  MSA · borrowed from

• טרײַען

  YID · borrowed from

• trio

  Welsh · borrowed from

• T@NearInsideChesthigh-PalmAcross-T@NearInsideChesthigh-PalmAcross T@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-T@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown

  American Sign Language · derived from

• traim

  Tok Pisin · derived from

• トライ

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root