abbot

From Aramaic abbā, 'father' — the word Jesus used in prayer — which Egyptian desert monks turned into a title for their spiritual fathers; Latin abbas then spread with monasteries from Ireland to Bohemia and Norway.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Late Latin to Old French, French

From Late Latin to Old High German, German

From Old High German to Czech, Polish

From Late Latin to Hungarian

From Aramaic to Syriac

From Koine Greek to Modern Greek

From Late Latin to Italian

From Late Latin to Spanish

From Late Latin to Portuguese

From Late Latin to Old Irish, Irish

From Late Latin to Welsh

From Old English to Old Norse

3750 BCEProto-Semitic

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