Word Origin Summary

Χεῖλος 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. *gʰel-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Chilone

  Italian · derived from

• cheilostome

  English · derived from

• Cheilostomata

  Translingual · derived from

• quilo-

  Catalan · derived from

• acheilous

  English · derived from

• chilopod

  English · derived from

• cheilo-

  English · derived from

• cheilion

  English · derived from

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