Word Origin Summary

Cenn is attested in Irish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kʷennomProto-Celticinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Kinlocheil

  English · derived from

• cenn

  Middle Irish · inherited from

• ceann

  Scottish Gaelic · inherited from

• Ceann Comhairle

  English · derived from

• Kinghorn

  English · derived from

• ceann

  Irish · inherited from

• Kincaid

  English · derived from

• kione

  Manx · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root