Words that come from Ancient Greek “Ἄγκυρα”

287 words across 96 languages descend from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα — including anchor, anchorage, anchoring, Ankara, Anchorage, anchorman, angora, anchoress.

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Finnish (40)

English (30)

German (14)

Italian (12)

French (9)

Esperanto (9)

Spanish (9)

Dutch (7)

Swedish (7)

Romanian (5)

Slovincian (5)

Irish (4)

Russian (4)

Japanese (4)

Portuguese (4)

Indonesian (4)

Basque (4)

Turkish (3)

Ido (3)

Galician (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Middle English (3)

Malay (3)

Welsh (3)

Cornish (3)

Latin (2)

Danish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Asturian (2)

Old Irish (2)

Chinese (2)

Catalan (2)

Aromanian (2)

Persian (2)

Polish (2)

Occitan (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old English (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Arabic (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Makasar (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Korean (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Faroese (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Greek (1)

Telugu (1)

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Chuukese (1)

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Gujarati (1)

Swahili (1)

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Old Norse (1)

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Old Tamil (1)

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Georgian (1)

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Uyghur (1)

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Mokilese (1)

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Hungarian (1)

Votic (1)

Tausug (1)

Istriot (1)

Tlingit (1)

Kashubian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Kyrgyz (1)

Macedonian (1)

Yakut (1)

Kazakh (1)

Tajik (1)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (1)

Thai (1)

Words from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα — 287 descendants | Etymology Explorer