Where does “corto” come from?
corto (Asturian) comes from Asturian cortar, from Latin curto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer- — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.
corto (Asturian): first-person singular present indicative of...
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Ancestry of “corto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Asturian | cortar | to cut |
| 2 | Latin | curto | I shorten, cut short, abbreviate |
| 3 | Latin | curtus | shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |