Word Origin Summary

Ἀλήθεια 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. *leh₂-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Aletha

  English · derived from

• αλήθεια

  Greek · inherited from

• alethonym

  English · derived from

• alethic

  English · derived from

• dialetheism

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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