Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. crētaLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kreyon kouler

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• crayon

  English · borrowed from

• 크레용

  Korean · borrowed from

• κραγιόν

  Greek · borrowed from

• 크레파스

  Korean · borrowed from

• krayon papye

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• creion

  Romanian · borrowed from

• クレパス

  Japanese · borrowed 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