Word Origin Summary

*órn-īk-s ~ *órn-īkʷʰ- is attested in Proto-Hellenic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• όρνιθα

  Greek · derived from

• ornitorinc

  Romanian · derived from

• Sayornis

  Translingual · derived from

• Snowornis

  Translingual · derived from

• -ornis

  Translingual · derived from

• Ornithopoda

  Translingual · derived from

• Ornithomimus

  Translingual · derived from

• אורניתולוגיה

  Hebrew · derived from

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