Words that come from Ancient Greek λύρα

167 words across 40 languages descend from Ancient Greek λύρα — including litter, lyric, delirium, lyre, Lyra, littering, lyricism, lyricist.

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English (47)

French (27)

Latin (16)

Italian (6)

Dutch (5)

Hungarian (5)

Esperanto (4)

Irish (4)

Spanish (4)

Norman (4)

German (4)

Yiddish (3)

Portuguese (3)

Polish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Cebuano (2)

Ido (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Romanian (2)

Old French (2)

New Latin (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Middle French (1)

Indonesian (1)

Greek (1)

Russian (1)

Slovak (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Faroese (1)

Swedish (1)

Japanese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Slovene (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Galician (1)

Malay (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Czech (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Words from Ancient Greek λύρα — 167 descendants | Etymology Explorer