Word Origin Summary

*-éh₂ 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

• Pachyptila

  Translingual · derived from

• -le

  Romanian · inherited from

• forda

  Latin · inherited from

• Pachyptile

  French · borrowed from

• -a

  Spanish · inherited from

• -α

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• pachyptile

  English · borrowed from

• -e

  French · derived 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