Word Origin Summary

*wentā is attested in Proto-Celtic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• vincseszter

  Hungarian · derived from

• Winchester

  English · derived from

• Venta

  Latin · derived from

• winchester

  French · borrowed from

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