Word Origin Summary

Lancer 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. lanceaLatininherited from
2. lanceāreLatininherited from
3. lancierFrenchinherited from
4. *pleh₂k-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• lanseerata

  Finnish · derived from

• lanceren

  Dutch · borrowed from

• lansir

  Indonesian · derived from

• lansa

  Romanian · borrowed from

• lansere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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