Word Origin Summary

*ph₂weros 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

• puer

  Latin · derived from

• puericultură

  Romanian · borrowed from

• puero

  Interlingua · derived from

• prunc

  Romanian · derived from

• buob

  Romansch · derived from

• puériculture

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root