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Where does “coastã” come from?

coastã (Aromanian) comes from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European kost-.

coastã (Aromanian): rib

Definitions

  1. rib

Ancestry of “coastã”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincostaa rib; a side, a wall
2Proto-Indo-Europeankost-—
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