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- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Italic*prō
- Latinprō
- Englishpro-
- Latingestō
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
- Proto-Hellenic*génos
- Ancient Greekγένος (génos)
- English todayprogestogen
From pro- + Latin gestō (“to bear, to carry”) + English -o- + -gen. First attested in 1941.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.