Word Origin Summary

*wissus 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

• gwŷs

  Welsh · inherited from

• fys

  Manx · inherited from

• Arthwys

  Welsh · derived from

• fios

  Irish · inherited from

• fius

  Irish · inherited from

• fios

  Scottish Gaelic · inherited from

• Ἀριόβυστος

  Ancient Greek · borrowed from

• Ariovistus

  Latin · 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