Words that come from Ancient Greek ἔχω

400 words across 52 languages descend from Ancient Greek ἔχω — including scheme, sketch, epoch, schema, Hector, Scheme, turtle, schematic.

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English (111)

Ancient Greek (65)

Greek (26)

Latin (20)

Italian (17)

French (16)

Dutch (16)

Serbo-Croatian (14)

German (11)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Portuguese (7)

Translingual (6)

Swedish (6)

Romanian (5)

Catalan (4)

Russian (4)

Middle English (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Medieval Latin (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Polish (3)

Aramaic (2)

Tagalog (2)

Middle French (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Finnish (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Late Latin (2)

Slovak (1)

Old Irish (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Irish (1)

Danish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Hebrew (1)

Japanese (1)

Mi'kmaq (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Czech (1)

Hungarian (1)

Galician (1)

Norman (1)

Old French (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Asturian (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Old Catalan (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Koine Greek (1)

Ido (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Words from Ancient Greek ἔχω — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer