Word Origin Summary

Σκιά 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. *(s)ḱeh₃ih₂Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• sciagraphy

  English · derived from

• sciagraph

  English · derived from

• skiatron

  English · derived from

• Skioptikon

  German · derived from

• ίσκιος

  Greek · inherited from

• σκιά

  Greek · inherited from

• skiascope

  English · derived from

• skiagram

  English · derived 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