Etymology of “Sentimental”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from English
Source language
English
Ancestry links
0
Descendants
6
Word Origin Summary
Sentimental is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Descendants and Related Terms
- センチ
Japanese · derived from
- senci
Atayal · borrowed from
- sentimental
Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from
- szentimentális
Hungarian · derived from
- sentimenteel
Dutch · borrowed from
- sentimental
Norwegian Bokmål · derived from
What You Can Explore
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- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root