Word Origin Summary

*(s)tégos is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• çhagh

  Manx · inherited from

• Stegosaurus

  Translingual · derived from

• stegokrotaphic

  English · derived from

• stégo-

  French · borrowed from

• τέγος

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• tech

  Old Irish · inherited from

• στέγος

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• teach

  Irish · inherited 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