Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ταχυ-

  Greek · derived from

• tachycardia

  English · derived from

• tachy-

  French · derived from

• taquigrafía

  Spanish · derived from

• tachy-

  English · borrowed from

• isotach

  English · borrowed from

• ταχύς

  Greek · inherited from

• Tachyglossus

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root