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Where does “ইকুৱেডৰ” come from?

ইকুৱেডৰ (Assamese) comes from English Ecuador, from Spanish ecuador, from Medieval Latin aequator, from Latin aequō, from Latin æquus, from Latin vocāre, from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ- — to speak, to sound out.

Ancestry of “ইকুৱেডৰ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishEcuador—
2Spanishecuadorequator
3Medieval Latinaequatorequalizer; equator; second-person singular future...
4Latinaequō—
5Latinæquus—
6Latinvocāre—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwekʷ-to speak, to sound out
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