English despair

← English desperate (mention)

← Middle English dispeir (inherited)

← Old French desperer (derived)

← Old French desesperer (mention)

← Old French des- (mention)

← Old French esperer (mention)

← Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (root)

← Latin despero (derived)

→ English despairer (suffix)

→ English despairing (suffix)

→ English despairful (suffix)

→ English despaireth (suffix)

→ English despairest (suffix)

→ English climate despair (blend)

→ Esperanto despero (cognate)