Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. mātrōnaLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ماتريوشكا

  Arabic · borrowed from

• матрьошка

  Ukrainian · borrowed from

• มาโตรชก้า

  Thai · borrowed from

• matrioška

  Slovak · borrowed from

• matrjoška

  Czech · borrowed from

• 마트료시카

  Korean · borrowed from

• matryoshka

  English · borrowed from

• matrioixca

  Catalan · borrowed from

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