Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *gʷonāProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. *gʷḗnProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• gynecophile

  English · derived from

• gynecide

  English · derived from

• ναίκα

  Cappadocian Greek · inherited from

• gyne

  English · borrowed from

• gyno-

  English · derived from

• γυναίκα

  Greek · inherited from

• Gynandria

  Translingual · derived from

• gynecology

  English · derived 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