Word Origin Summary

Ἄκρος 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. *h₂ḱrósProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• acrophonie

  French · derived from

• acromion

  English · derived from

• Acroceraunian

  English · derived from

• acromion

  French · derived from

• acra-

  Irish · derived from

• acrotrichium

  English · derived from

• Acrochaetium

  Translingual · derived from

• akro-

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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