Word Origin Summary

*kʰolā́ 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

• còlera

  Catalan · derived from

• kolesterol

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• chole-

  Polish · derived from

• cholesterolum

  Latin · derived from

• colúria

  Catalan · derived from

• kolerisk

  Swedish · derived from

• cholaemia

  English · derived from

• chole-

  English · 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