Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. gouvreneurFrenchinherited from
2. gubernatorLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• gubernur

  Indonesian · derived from

• guvernør

  Danish · borrowed from

• 鵝蠻律

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• gouverneur

  French · inherited from

• gouverneur

  Dutch · borrowed from

• guvernør

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• guvernør

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• guvernor

  Romanian · borrowed from

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