Word Origin Summary

Ἄλλος 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. *áľľosProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. *h₂élyosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• 알레르기

  Korean · borrowed from

• allergy

  English · derived from

• allochthonous

  English · derived from

• allochtone

  French · derived from

• alóctone

  Portuguese · derived from

• allosua

  SQI · derived from

• al·lo-

  Catalan · borrowed from

• Allel

  German · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root