Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *ćriHrásProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• សិរិ

  Central Khmer · derived from

• ศิริ

  Thai · borrowed from

• ព្រះ

  Central Khmer · derived from

• శ్రీనివాసపురం

  Telugu · derived from

• Sri Lanka

  Faroese · derived from

• seri

  MSA · borrowed from

• Srikalahasti

  English · derived from

• శ్రీకాళహస్తి

  Telugu · derived from

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